Clarkes (Q495022)
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LBS-PLA-EST-06467
- LBS-PLA-EST-06467
- LBS-PLA-EST-e3388
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Clarkes
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LBS-PLA-EST-06467
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Statements
Clarke's
1. Now the Four Seasons Hotel and Resort2. 'In 2000 and 2001 we conducted a search for documentary evidence for Clarke's Estate (now the Four Seasons Resort). This plantation bordered Mountravers to the north and was once owned by the radical Alderman Richard Oliver of London and by John Henry Clarke and his family. In 1830 Peter Thomas Huggins of Mountravers purchased the property. Huggins acquir
ed it after its slave population had undergone a particularly difficult period of shortages, illnesses and unrest (C Eickelmann and D Small The History of Clarke's Estate on Nevis: From Sugar Plantation to Luxury Resort, unpublished MSS, 2001).Fieldwalking, conducted in 2002 at the possible location of a ninteenth-century slave village, revealed pottery scatter similar to that found at Mountravers
, as well as structures that need further investigation. Another visit to the site in 2004 suggested that a potentially important slave village site was about to be destroyed by developers, without prior recording of the archaeological remains.'