Rum Cay: History
=== Aboriginals ===
Rum Cay was called Mamana (or Manigua), meaning "mid waters land", by the native Lucayans. In the north there is a cave containing Lucayan drawings and carvings. Various artifacts from the Arawak period have been found by farmers in the fertile soil, which the natives enriched with bat guano.
Some writers, such as Samuel Eliot Morison, identified Rum Cay as the site of one of Christopher Columbus's landfalls during his 1492 voyage, as the island Columbus called Santa María de la Concepción. However, a variety of other historians, geographers, and other writers identify that island as corresponding to different islands in the Bahamas or Caicos.