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Bermuda is an unincorporated community in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is located near the Cane River Creole National Historic Park on LA-112, south of Point Place near Isle Brevelle and the Oakland Plantation. Local waterways include the Cane River. The community is part of the Natchitoches Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Bermuda (/ b ər ˈ m j uː d ə /; historically known as the Bermudas or Somers Isles) is a British Overseas Territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. The closest land outside the territory is in the American state of North Carolina, about 1,035 km (643 mi) to the west-northwest.
Narcisse Prudhomme Plantation, also known as Narcisse Prud'homme Plantation, Beau Fort Plantation, and St. Charles Plantation, is a historic planation house and a former plantation, located in the unincorporated community of Bermuda, Louisiana near the village of Natchez. [2] It is one of the oldest plantations in the Cane River National ...
St. George's (formally the Town of St. George or St. George's Town), located on the island and within the parish of the same names (and on the northern side of St. George's Harbour), settled in 1612, is the first permanent English (and later British) settlement on the islands of Bermuda.
Brian Burland (1931 in Bermuda – 2010 in Bermuda) was a Bermudian writer, poet and author of nine acclaimed novels that typically dealt with colonialism, family strife and race; David B. Wingate OBE (born 1935 in Bermuda) is an ornithologist, naturalist and conservationist. He rediscovered the black-capped petrel in Haiti in 1963.
Finance and international business constitute the largest sector of Bermuda's economy, and virtually all of this business takes place within the borders of Hamilton. Numerous leading international insurance companies are based in Hamilton, as it is a global reinsurance centre [clarification needed]. Around 400 internationally owned and operated ...
The State House, Bermuda, built in 1620, was one of the first stone structures.. The predominance of stone as a building material came about early in Bermuda's history. The first settlers built using the native and abundant Bermuda cedar, but such structures were rarely able to withstand either the normal winds or the occasional hurrican
Pembroke Parish is one of the nine parishes of Bermuda.It is named after English aristocrat William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke (1580–1630).. It occupies most of the short peninsula which juts from the central north coast of Bermuda's main island, and surrounds the city of Hamilton on three sides (the fourth being taken up by the shore of Hamilton Harbour).