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Fothergill's Nevisian Heritage Village Review

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Fothergill's Nevisian Heritage Village

Address: Gingerland, Nevis
Phone: 869/469-5521; 869/469-7037

Category: Museum Village
Location: Nevis

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Fodor's Review:

On the grounds of a former sugar plantation-cotton ginnery, this ambitious, ever-expanding project traces the evolution of Nevisian social history, from the Caribs to the present, through vernacular dwellings. Several huts re-create living conditions over the centuries. The Carib chief's thatched hut includes actual relics such as weapons, calabash bowls, clay pots, and cassava squeezers. Wattle-and-daub structures reproduce slave quarters; implements on display include coal pots and sea fans (used as sieves). A post-emancipation chattel house holds patchwork quilts. There's a typical sharecropper's garden, a blacksmith's shop, and a traditional rum shop (replete with domino players). Management hopes to establish a working still and a small restaurant dispensing authentic Nevisian fare.

Cost: EC$8
Open: Mon.-Sat. 9-4

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