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9 Φεβ 2024 · To visit Carter House today is to step back in time and experience an uncanny nostalgia, perhaps a stirring of ancestral memories embedded deep in the genes, provoked by the elegant beauty of handcrafted tools, deep stone fireplaces and cedar beams.
Carter House. Carter House is “a link among the days to knit the generations each to each.”. Alfred Lord Tennyson. A place to sit in silence and let the past speak to you.
The house is a classic early Bermuda vernacular structure and certainly in a beautiful setting. It houses a museum exhibiting the history, people and culture of the unique St Davids islanders. It has the best exhibit of Palmetto products in Bermuda (a dying art) as well as 18th century tools.
Carter House is believed to be one of the oldest Bermuda vernacular farmhouses in St David’s and indeed Bermuda surviving largely in its original structure and form for over 3 centuries. The House is now a museum preserving the one of a kind culture and history of the St David’s Islanders.
Carter House is one of the oldest homes in Bermuda built in 1640 by the descendants of Christopher Carter. So who was Carter? George Somers was the first who started the British colonization in Bermuda in 1610.
7 Απρ 2021 · In fact, the Carter House (named after one of the shipwrecked sailors from 1609) was built in the 1680s—original roof. It’s an ingenious concept, even if the land itself does most of the work.
Built in 2012 to commemorate Bermuda’s 400th anniversary, the tiny cabin features Bermuda cedar beams, a thatched palmetto roof, and clay walls held together with lime oil.
