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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.
A UNESCO World Heritage Site (together with related fortifications), St. George's Town is the oldest surviving English settlement in the New World, [3] having been settled by the Virginia Company in 1612 [4] (in the aftermath of the wrecking of its flagship, the Sea Venture, in Bermuda in 1609).
The Historic Town of St George and Related Fortifications is the name used by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) World Heritage Committee to identify collectively as a World Heritage Site St. George's Town, founded in 1612 (following the 1609 wreck on Bermuda's reefs of the Sea Venture), and a range of fortifications, batteries, and magazines built ...
Several of the islands strung across the South entrance of Castle Harbour, Bermuda were fortified in the early days of the territory, hence the harbour's name. When official settlement of the archipelago by England began in 1612 (unofficial settlement having begun with the 1609 wrecking of the Sea Venture) the first permanent town, St. George's (then called New London) was placed on the North ...
Map of the island of Bermuda. Bermuda was first documented by a European in 1503 by Spanish explorer Juan de Bermúdez.In 1609, the English Virginia Company, which had established Jamestown in Virginia two years earlier, permanently settled Bermuda in the aftermath of a hurricane, when the crew and passengers of Sea Venture steered the ship onto the surrounding reef to prevent it from sinking ...
The island covers 703 acres (284.5 hectares), and is one of the six principal islands of Bermuda. Originally called King's Island , it was the first part of Bermuda to be extensively colonised, and the town of St. George's contains many of the territory's oldest buildings.
New London (renamed St. George's Town) was settled that year and designated as the colony's first capital. [21] [12] It is the oldest continuously inhabited English town in the New World. [21] In 1616 and 1620 acts were passed banning the hunting of certain birds and young tortoises. [22]
The State House in St. George's was the home of Bermuda's parliament from 1620 until the capital's relocation to Hamilton in 1815. Carter House St. David's: 1640 Walshingham House Hamilton Parish: 1652 Built in 1652 as a private home for the Trott family [1] Old Rectory St. George's: 1699 Bridge House St. George's: 1700 Palmetto House ...