Hamilton was here, but there’s so much more to Nevis, a forgotten Caribbean gem.
A ROOSTER’S CROW mingles with the sound of leaves rustling from the breeze blowing off the sea. A troop of monkeys, three babies in tow, alternately lounge and scamper on the lawn beneath the frangipani tree, its crown ablaze with red blossoms. Stay, or head to breakfast? It’s just one of the decisions you’ll have to make when staying at one of the original sugar plantations—Montpelier, the Hermitage and Nisbet—on the island of Nevis.
To find Nevis on Google Maps, type “Caribbean” and then zoom in a couple of clicks. Tucked beside its sister island St. Kitts, east of Puerto Rico, the 36-square-mile Nevis really is a forgotten spot in the Caribbean. Though a little less so these days as fans of the Broadway megahit Hamilton, An American Musical make the pilgrimage to the birthplace of their favorite founding father. Lucky for them, the lush island landscape and many of its maintained 18th-century buildings make it easy to experience Nevis through the eyes of a young Alexander Hamilton, born here in 1757.
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