Step back in time to the days of wealth and grandeur when SUGAR
was KING. The planters of the Caribbean controlled parliament and
the price of sugar. The saying used to be, not "richer than
Midas" but "richer than a West Indian planter" and
that was rich indeed.
Falmouth was built by Edward Barrett (of the Barrett's of Wimpole
Street) beginning in 1785 as a place for the planters to come for
a social season after the sugar was harvested. They built gracious,
Georgian style town homes so that they could visit back and forth,
put on lavish entertainments and enjoy the best that society had
to offer.
It also sits on the edge of the Luminous Lagoon,
the most highly phosphorescent bay in the entire world. Well worth
an evening out in a boat seeing the water light up around you.
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