Bermuda: The Globe Hotel - St. George, Bermuda

The Globe Hotel

St. George, Bermuda

N 32° 22.882 W 064° 40.639

Short Description: 

The Globe Hotel is a museum on the Civil War Discovery Trail. It is located on the Duke of York Street one block north of King's Square in St. George, Bermuda.

Long Description:

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.

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.

The 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