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Bermuda's poorest and most neglected locales. The Bermuda Development Company was formed in response to growing American tourism. This body aimed to create an exclusive and prestigious enclave for wealthy tourists, and was empowered to
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Kennedy Augusta Lambert and Ainslie Letitia Dansmore Lambert, the mothers of the Talbot Brothers band members) against the Bermuda Development Company in the Supreme Court in 1924 that resulted in compensation paid to the descendants for the land known as the
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began an initiative to encourage the cultivation of cotton in Tucker's Town. The move was not commercially successful, as the wrong kind of cotton was grown. By 1834, former slaves owned property in Tucker's Town as part of St. George's large
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to design a golf course for its new Castle
Harbour Hotel, the Mid Ocean Club. Macdonald's course was finished in December 1921, with the assistance of Portuguese workers from
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Furness, who by that point ran several more hotels in Bermuda) was struggling financially, and in 1951 it was sold to its members.
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