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The Nevis Botanical Garden is more or less centrally located in the parish, as is the hotel, Montpelier Plantation Inn. In the southernmost part of the parish is the Nevis deep-water port. Most of the coastline of this parish consists of small cliffs and coves with small beaches, many of which are not easily accessible from the land.
The estate was first owned by James Tobin senior, and then his son, James Tobin (1736/7–1817), from whom it passed to his friend and business associate John Pinney. [2] While James Tobin was an active anti-abolitionist, his son James Webbe Tobin opposed slavery and moved to Nevis in 1809.
During the Georgian era, breaking a marital engagement was seen as quite dishonourable, [75] and so Nelson and Nisbet were married at Montpelier Estate, on the island of Nevis, on 11 March 1787, shortly before the end of his tour of duty in the Caribbean. [76] The marriage was registered at Fig Tree Church in St John's Parish on Nevis.
SUN AND SAND: 10 Caribbean beach resorts that are great for families. ... Work with the hotel’s concierge to arrange a visit to the Montpelier Estate, a plantation rich with history dating back ...
Montpelier Estate, (c.1890 to 1954) was one of three sugar factories in Antigua and was known for its muscovado sugar.It had a buff hose located on a hill near the village of Saint Philips, having a view of the Montpelier estate and surrounding fields.
Frances was born on the Caribbean island of Nevis in the Lesser Antilles in 1758, and was baptised Frances Herbert Woolward in St. George's Church in May 1761. The Woolwards were members of the colonial elite: her mother, Mary Herbert, was one of three sisters of John Richardson Herbert, a descendant of the fourth Earl of Pembroke, and Mary and John's uncle had been President of the Council of ...
By 1900 there were 61 estates on Nevis utilizing the sharecropping system, while St. Kitts only had 2. [1]: 123–124 [2]: 188–189, 191 The 1899 San Ciriaco hurricane left 27 dead on Nevis and 2 on St. Kitts. The Nevis hospital was destroyed and 8,000 left homeless. [2]: 193–194
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