Tucker House
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 Tucker House | |
| Location: | 32°22’50"N, 64°40’42"W |
| Address: | 5 Water Street |
| Built c 1750 | |
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Tucker House stands on Water Street in the heart of St George's, the old capital of Bermuda. Once a family home, it is now maintained by the Bermuda National Trust as a museum. It contains a magnificent collection from the effects of the Tucker family; silver, china and crystal, antique British mahogany and Bermuda cedar furniture, portraits by Joseph Blackburn, and exquisite hand-sewn quilts are just some of the treasures on view.
The house was built in the 1750s. Henry Tucker, President of the Governor’s Council, moved into the house in 1775; his family remained there until 1809. Some dramatic scenes of Bermuda's history were played out by the family: one ancestor was Governor of Bermuda, while Henry' father, also Henry Tucker, is believed responsible for a theft of 100 barrels of gunpowder in 1775 to aid the American rebels and two of his in other sons moved to the Thirteen Colonies where they fought for the rebels.
The museum
The house displays exhibitions on the Tucker family and their collection of art, and on Bermuda's part in the American Revolution.
There is also an exhibit on Joseph Rainey, who operated a barber's shop from the house, having fled South Carolina in the American Civil War. He later returned to the United Sates and became the first black man to be sworn into the American House of Representatives, as a Republican representative from South Carolina.
Outside links
- The Historic Tucker House: Bermuda National Trust