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History
Watch
Great Harbour Cay, from the air and the water
A short film across the island: the cut into the marina, the beaches on the east coast, the flats at the southern end, and what is being built now.
Read
One Particular Harbour
A brief history of Great Harbour Cay in the Berry Islands, written by William Hunt and dedicated to all of the residents of Great Harbour Cay, past, present and future. Sixty-four pages, more historical novel than serious document — his words.
It runs from the ex-slave settlements of 1836 and the sponge fleet at Bullock’s Harbour, through Lou Chesler and the Tamboo Club, the smuggling years, the first houses, and the Beach Club.
Contents
Pre–Great Harbour8
The Tamboo Club16
The Hunt Family: First Visit20
Transportation23
The First Inkling25
Drugs on Great Harbour28
Dale Murray’s Time in Our Lives35
Mickey Briggs and His Big Plan38
Some of the First Homes41
Great Harbour in the Year 200045
The Beach Club56
William Hunt was born in Pittsburgh and raised in Baltimore. Every page of the PDF is searchable.