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The Carter House

The Carter House Museum is an all-original Bermuda vernacular farmhouse dating to around 1700, preserved on St. David's Island as a living tribute to the islanders whose whaling, piloting, fishing, and farming heritage was nearly erased when the US military built an airbase across their community in 1941. Visitors enter through a cedar door flanked by stone buttresses, walk a 17th-century garden featuring a replica of a 1612 settler's cabben, and explore exhibits that bring St. David's old way of life to vivid detail — including Martha Hayward's famous palmetto hats, a humpback whale story, actual ambergris, and the tools first Bermudians used four centuries ago. Admission is free (donations are welcome), and the house sits just eight minutes from St. George's Town Square with sweeping views toward Nonsuch Island and the rare Cahow bird's habitat.