Globe Hotel - St. George - Bermuda
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N 32° 22.882 W 064° 40.639
20S E 342217 N 3583946
A pair of signs on the Globe Hotel recount its role on the side of the Confederacy during the United States Civil War.
Waymark Code: WMMQ82
Location: Bermuda
Date Posted: 10/24/2014
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During the Civil War the U.K. was officially neutral but sentiment in the U.K. as divided. However, trade continued with both the Union and the Confederacy. The U.K. relied on cotton from the Confederacy to supply its textile mills but a Union blockage was in effect. Nonetheless, blockade runners managed to ship munitions to the South and cotton to the U.K.
The present day Globe Hotel in St. George, Bermuda was the home of a Confederate Major that facilitated the blockade runners. A blue plaque on east chimney on the Duke of York Street side of the Globe Hotel is inscribed:
GLOBE HOTEL
1700
From this building Confederate shipping agent
Major Norman Walker coordinated the flow of guns,
ammunition and other supplies through the Union
blockade during the Civil War
HERITAGE SIGN SPONSORED BY THE ST. GEORGE'S FOUNDATION
A nearby bronze plaque on the west chimney gives additional history of the building. It is inscribed:
THE BACK GARDEN OF
THE FIRST GOVERNMENT HOUSE
WAS ON THIS SITE
IN 1700, SAMUEL DAY, GOVERNOR, ERECTED
THIS BUILDING, FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY IT
WAS IN THE POSSESSION OF THE TUCKER FAMILY.
DURING THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
IT WAS OCCUPIED BY THE AGENT
OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES AND
LATER BECAME THE GLOBE HOTEL
Today the Globe Hotel is a museum operated Bermuda National Trust Museum, it features an exhibit called Rogues and Runners: Bermuda and the American Civil War.