Today was a very happy day for me. Because today I went to visit Kotchandpur city with my uncle ||1 July 2024 ||

Assalamu Alaikum, first of all my greetings and congratulations to all the members of the Steam for Bangladesh family. How are you all, I hope you are well by the grace of God. Today I am with you with my new post. I am starting today's event by wishing everyone good health. With one of my uncles. My uncle and I visited various philosophical places in our upazila Kotchandpur city. I will share the details with you. Hope you all like it. So let's begin now.

First of all I called my uncle on messenger and said where is uncle, he replied that I am in the room, I then said let's go to Kotchandpur city for a long time or let's go around, then he said then get ready and come to the street. Then two people got ready and came to the road waiting for the car, Kotchandpur city is 8 km from our house.

I came to Kotchandpur city by easy bike, then I saw that it was time for Asr prayer, then I prayed. After praying, we decided to go around.

First we went to Kotchandpur Government Model Pilot Secondary School. there

In the early part of the nineteenth century, some traders from England came to this country to trade sugar. Mr. a businessman in England. Blake set up a sugar factory (The Dhoba Sugar Company) in Kotchandpur. The same authority set up another factory at Trimohani in Jessore district. At Kotchandpur Sugar Factory Dhoba Company started using machinery imported from England. But the business of that company failed within a short period of time. In 1842, the Kotchandpur sugar factory was bought by Mr. Dhoba Company. Newhouse (Mr. New House) transferred ownership and sugar production continued. Newhouse and his wife Bridget Newhouse built a large building in Kotchandpur and settled permanently. His only daughter, Margaret Sarah McLeod, married Sir John Sinoleb McLeod. Mr. McLeod was a native of Scotland. He was the manager of Glodstone Wyllie and Company Chougacha Sugar Factory in Calcutta. He had three sons. Three sons, Edward George MacLeod, George Frederick MacLeod and Harold Clive MacLeod. Edward Judge McLeod was a barrister. But he did business in Kotchandpur without engaging in legal profession. Kotchandpur's population grew rapidly due to trade and the establishment of city-centred local government municipalities for civic amenities. Kotchandpur municipality was established in 1883. He was the elected chairman of the municipality from 1892-1904. He was the Second Class Honorary Magistrate of Kotchandpur Municipality. He was succeeded by his younger brother Harold Clive McLeod as Chairman of the Municipality from 1904-1908. George Frederick Macleod, the second son of John Sinoleb Macleod, had two sons. Two sons, Erich McLeod and Junior Harold. Erich McLeod was Chir Kumar and Jr. Harold McLeod served as Assam Bengal Post Master General. It is noted that no information is known about the death and burial of the three sons of Sinolob McLeod. However, there is a legend about Erich McLeod's tomb that he is buried in the south-west corner of Mezzo Saheb's house (Sadhu Mia's house). Funded by: District Administration, Jhenaidah..

1. Kotchandpur Municipal Women's College 2. Kotchandpur Government Girls High School 3. Kotchandpur Kamil Madrasa 4. Kotchandpur Municipality 5. Kotchandpur Upazila Parishad 6. Government Khondkar Mosharraf Hossain College 7. Kotchandpur Railway Station