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Ninety seconds on Carter House
Come to see real ambergris up close, palmetto hats made by hand, and the view from the front steps across Castle Harbour to its first stone forts.
A piece of real ambergris sits among the exhibits, close enough to study. Beside it are hand tools from the 1600s and hats made by Martha Hayward, who lived in the house.
The rooms cover island life trade by trade. The curator, a Carter descendant, has her own ghost stories about the lower rooms.
In the garden is a thatched replica of a 1612 settlers' cabin, built of mud and stud, among palmetto, cedar, snowberry and olivewood. Before you leave, stand on the front steps and look south-east to Nonsuch Island, where the cahow was brought back after being thought extinct.
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