St. George Town, Bermuda

The cobbled streets of Bermuda’s most appealing and picturesque town are some of the New World’s most historic.  

The Town of St. George, founded in 1612, is the 5th oldest European municipality in the Western Hemisphere settled by Northern Europeans and an UNESCO World Heritage Site.  

Still very much alive and not a mere historical recreation, St. George Town continues as a thriving daytime commercial center and port. The oldest stone buildings still standing today were built after 1619 from local Bermuda stone. 

Previously, structures had roofs made of thatch which could easily catch fire. The street cobblestones had to be imported, brought in from Wales, since no suitable material was available locally.

St. George Town, the capital of Bermuda from 1612 until 1815, was where many English colonists headed to Jamestown, VA, were shipwrecked for 42 weeks in 1609.

Among the stranded was John Rolfe, whose wife and child died here. He is best known for later marrying the Indian princess, Pocahontas. Look here for a more detailed Bermuda history.

Major St. George Sites and Sights

Museums & Gov't Buildings

Ferry Point Park

The following locations start at the cruise dock on Ordnance Island and move inland in the following order, ending up on the opposite coast:

Deliverance II, replica of ship on Ordnance Island that took stranded colonists from Bermuda to Virginia

Somers Statue on Ordnance Island

King's Square

Town Hall

Major Donald H. (Bob) Burns Memorial Park 

Old State House

Somers Garden where vital organs of the Admiral are buried

St. Peter's Church

Gates Fort

Tobacco Bay Beach

Unfinished Church

St. George's Golf Club

Tobacco Bay Beach

Fort St. Catherine

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