Tour Overview
Stops
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The Wreck of the Sea Venture
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Arrival of the First Permanent Settlers
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Establishment of St. Peter’s Church
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Construction of Fort St. Catherine
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The Somers Isles Company takes control
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Early land survey and division — Richard Norwood’s 1616 survey
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The Introduction of African Enslavement
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First Session of Bermuda’s House of Assembly & Construction of State House
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The Bermuda Cedar Sloop — innovation in shipbuilding
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The English Civil War divides Bermuda
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End of Company rule — Crown takes over
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Bermuda Becomes a Crown Colony / Acts of Union and British Colony Status
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The Bermuda Gunpowder Plot / Supply to the American Revolution (sympathies and thefts)
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Founding of Hamilton
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Dockyard and strategic build-up — Admiralty acquires Ireland Island / Dockyard construction begins
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Bermuda’s Role in the War of 1812 & Royal Naval Dockyard
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Capital moves — Hamilton replaces St. George’s as seat of government
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Convict labour and Dockyard construction (the human cost of imperial works)
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Emancipation of Slaves in Bermuda
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Friendly Societies and Black Self-Help Organizations Rise
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“The Enterprise” Affair – Freedom from Slave Ship
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Yellow Fever Epidemics
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A hub for Confederate blockade-running during the American Civil War
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The Great Exhibition of 1879
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Hamilton elevated — town becomes a city during Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee era
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