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The museum building was originally built around 1680. It was the birthplace of Alexander Hamilton, a Founding Father of the United States. [1] In 1840, the building was destroyed during an earthquake. The building underwent restoration in 1983. [2] [3]
It now houses the Society's offices and the Museum of Nevis History. [3] [4] The building's upper floor hosts the Nevis Island Government's Legislative Offices, the Nevis Island Assembly. The museum building was long thought to be the house where the American statesman and Founding Father Alexander Hamilton was born and lived during his childhood.
The Museum of Nevis History in Charlestown is housed in a refurbished structure that was the birthplace of Alexander Hamilton. Charlestown is the capital of the island of Nevis in the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis in the Leeward Islands of the West Indies.
National Museum of Saint Kitts. This is a list of museums in Saint Kitts and Nevis. National Museum of Saint Kitts in Saint George Basseterre; Nevis Historical and Conservation Society museums: Alexander Hamilton Museum; Museum of Nevis History in Saint Paul Charlestown; Joan Robinson Biodiversity and Oral History Resource Centre
The Museum of Nevis History in Charlestown is housed in the restored Georgian stone building which is near the mostly wooden building where Alexander Hamilton was born. A series of earthquakes during the 18th century severely damaged most of the colonial-era stone buildings of Charlestown.
In 1990, a New York government building was renamed to the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House. [15] At Hamilton's birthplace in Charlestown, Nevis, the Alexander Hamilton Museum was rebuilt on the foundations of the house where Hamilton was once believed to have been born and lived during his childhood. [16]
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Frontispiece of British cartographer John Hamilton Moore's book Voyages and Travels (1778) Saint Kitts and Nevis suffered heavily from a Spanish raid in 1629, led by Fadrique de Toledo, 1st Marquis of Villanueva de Valdueza. All settlements were destroyed, nine hostages taken back to Spain, and 600 men taken to work the mines in Spanish America.