The great American statesman Alexander Hamilton was born on the Caribbean island of Nevis in 1757. He spent his childhood on the island up until the age of eight, when he and his mother moved to the...

The Museum of Nevis History is situated in a handsome Caribbean Georgian stone building near the water at the north end of Charlestown, the capital of Nevis. The museum is administered by the Nevis...

Memorial Square is the larger, and grander, of the two squares that form the center of Charlestown, the capital of Nevis, Eastern Caribbean. The Square very much still has the elegant feeling it must...

The Courthouse and Library in Charlestown is an impressive, large, cut-stone building originally dating from 1825. The structure was partially rebuilt in 1875 after a fire, and the clocktower was...

Methodist missionaries first came to Nevis in the 1820's, preaching racial tolerance, and left four years later.  They quickly returned and are now the largest recognised religion on the island.  The...

  During the 17th century, a group of Sephardic Jews who had previously been living for a while in Brazil, came north to Nevis, where they taught the British settlers the difficult, but...