The Bermuda Triangle is said to cover a vast area of the western North Atlantic between the island, Miami and Puerto Rico where legend has it a number of ships and aircraft are said to have mysteriously disappeared. The move would be in a similar vein to the way Belfast has cashed-in on its links to the mega fantasy TV hit Game of Thrones, much of which was filmed in the Northern Irish city. Hamilton should be at the centre of a Bermuda Triangle-based tourism boost, the city’s Mayor has said.Ĭharles Gosling would like to use the globally known myth to attract more visitors to the capital. But if anything, Alexander Hamilton’s Nevisian heritage, coupled with his many accomplishments on the mainland United States thereafter, only serves to prove that hard work really can pay off.The infamous Bermuda Triangle runs from the Island to Florida and Puerto Rico It may be difficult to imagine that such a pivotal figure in American history actually hailed from a petite island on which monkeys still outnumber people. Though not tied directly to Alexander Hamilton, several Charlestown sites are still in existence from the time in which he and his family were a part of the island’s legacy-including churches, the old customs house and, of course, the Charlestown port, to and from which ships sailed daily. Today, passersby will find overgrown ruins of the windmill and an historical marker defining the site. According to the Nevis Historical and Conservation Society, the Hamilton Estate was one of the last remaining intact sugar factories on the island until it closed in 1951. In the hills that lead to Mount Nevis and Nevis Peak, the ruins of the Hamilton Estate-the family’s sugar plantation (though Alexander Hamilton himself never lived on the estate) that remained within the Hamilton family right up until the early-1950s-can still be seen. During its heyday, sugar operations included a windmill tower, boiling houses and a curing house.Īs was a defining trait of the sugar industry worldwide, slave labor was relied upon at the Hamilton Estate. Beyond the draw of the island’s sparsely populated beaches, lush forests and generally laid-back vibe, visitors today can walk in Hamilton's boyhood footsteps. The rest, as they say, is history.īack on Nevis, sugar plantations waned during this time, and the island’s main industry turned to tourism. in 1789, he appointed Hamilton as the first Secretary of the Treasury in the United States. When Washington was elected president of the U.S. In 1773, when he was 16 or 18 years old, Hamilton left the Caribbean for America, where he attended King’s College (now Columbia University) in New York and began to forge his political career, serving in the Revolutionary War and as an advisor to George Washington himself. Croix, impressing his mercantile employer with his accounting skills to such an extent that he and other businessmen pooled their resources to send Hamilton away from the islands to further his education. Despite adversity, Alexander proved to be a valuable and enterprising employee as a clerk in St. Croix. When young Hamilton was around 11 years old, he took his first job, and shortly thereafter, his mother passed away, leaving Hamilton and his brother essentially orphaned. They relocated to the island of Nevis, but their relationship, too, soon failed. Alexander’s father left the family, and young Hamilton moved with his mother to St. Kitts, where she met Scottish trader James Hamilton-Hamilton’s biological father. Seizing on a Danish law that allowed a husband to jail his wife if she was found guilty of adultery and no longer resided with him, he had Rachael clapped into dreaded Christiansvaren, the Christiansted fort, which did double duty as the town jail.” According to Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow, "Enraged, his pride bruised, Lavien was determined to humiliate his unruly bride. Prior to his birth, his mother had fled an abusive marriage to an older man but paid a hefty price for her actions. Hamilton lived on Nevis until he was about seven (or nine) years old, but despite the idyllic setting, his boyhood was not easy. Kitts in the Lesser Antilles that was under British rule at the time and was known for its sugar plantations. As Hamilton continues its wildly popular run on Broadway and takes theaters across the country by storm on tour, we pull back the curtain on the stage sensation and take a closer look at the formative years of its namesake on the quiet Caribbean island of Nevis.Īlexander Hamilton was born on Janu(or perhaps it was 1757-historical records vary, and even Hamilton himself was unsure of his precise birth year) on the small Caribbean island of Nevis, a body of land neighboring St.
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