Photo: David Broad (CC BY 3.0)
A self-guided audio walking tour of Charlestown, founded by settlers from St. Kitts around 1660 and shaped by sugar and the forced labour of enslaved Africans. From the ferry pier it passes the old Government Cotton Ginnery and reaches the Museum of Nevis History, on the site identified as Alexander Hamilton's birthplace, with the bronze statue of him as a young man unveiled in 2022. In the town are the ruins known as the slave market, St. Paul's Anglican Church and the school founded beside it in 1812, the Methodist church built by freedmen, War Memorial Square, and the Court House of 1811, rebuilt after the fire of 1873. Behind it lies the Jewish Cemetery, established in 1679, with inscriptions in Hebrew, Portuguese and English. The walk ends south of the town at the Bath Hotel and its volcanic hot springs, and at Fort Charles, in military use until the 1870s. Nevis is reached by ferry from Basseterre on St. Kitts, where cruise ships berth; the crossing takes about forty minutes each way.
13 narrations, yours to keep — no subscription, no expiry. Works offline once downloaded, and if it isn’t for you we’ll refund it.
Going somewhere with no signal? Put the guide on your home screen first, then download it from that icon while you are on wi-fi — that way you download once, and it works in airplane mode with no roaming charges. Show me the order →
Every claim in this tour traces back to a named source — excavation records, the heritage authority for the site, and the primary texts themselves. Nothing is copied from other guidebooks, and anything we can't source doesn't make the recording.
Each stop is built from OpenStreetMap · 38 features in this old town (the field-surveyed mapping database behind Apple Maps), Wikidata · 3 cross-referenced entries (peer-reviewed structured records), the heritage authority below, and the primary historical texts where they exist.
Cross-referenced against Modern excavation publications · academic peer-review.
Every sentence is checked against those sources before it is recorded. If a claim can't be traced, it doesn't make the audio.
Every tour is reviewed by a person before it goes on sale. Stop selection, the route and anything ambiguous come back to the editor for a decision, and those questions routinely send a stop back for another accuracy pass. Nothing publishes on a machine’s say-so.
Spot anything inaccurate? Email [email protected] — fixed in the next pass.
Charlestown Ferry Pier, Government Cotton Ginnery, Museum of Nevis History, Alexander Hamilton Statue.
Slave Market Ruins, St. Paul's Anglican Church, Charlestown Methodist Church, War Memorial Square, Charlestown Court House, Jewish Cemetery.
Bath Hotel, Bath Hot Springs, Fort Charles.
The rebuilt stone house on the site identified as Hamilton's birthplace, with the museum downstairs and the Nevis Island Assembly upstairs.
The surviving exterior walls of the place where, most accounts say, enslaved Africans were sold on arrival in Nevis.
A cut-stone church with a wooden Georgian tower, beside the school founded in 1812 that later taught formerly enslaved people.
Commissioned in 1811 and almost certainly built by enslaved masons, mostly rebuilt after the fire of 1873, with its clock tower.
A walled burial ground established in 1679, its weathered stones inscribed in Hebrew, Portuguese and English.
A stone hotel built for visitors taking the waters, cut into the slope above the volcanic hot springs that still flow beneath it.
Tap "Start Walking Tour" and allow location access. The map shows all 13 narration points.
Follow the suggested route or explore freely. GPS tracks your position. Reach a site and the narration plays automatically.
Each site has its own narration. 13 narration points.
Narrations play when you reach each site. No buttons, no track numbers. Walk naturally — the stories find you.
Premium narration that sounds like a documentary. Warm and knowledgeable, not a textbook reading.
Every narration is drafted, cross-checked against primary sources, then passed through a second editorial pass that strips unsupported claims. Dates, names, and citations verified.
See all narration points on the map. Tap any point to hear it early or replay it later.
Every narrated point in Charlestown, Nevis — Hamilton's Birthplace and the Sugar Island, each with its own narration.
Spend an hour or a full day. Skip sites, revisit favourites, take breaks. The tour adapts to you.
13 narration points, including Charlestown Ferry Pier, Government Cotton Ginnery, Museum of Nevis History, Alexander Hamilton Statue and Slave Market Ruins. That is about 14 minutes of narration in all, and you walk between the stops at your own pace.
Yes. It plays in your phone’s browser as you walk: no guide, no group, no app to install and no fixed start time.
Three ways, all built in:
The map-tap option means you can stand anywhere — even at home before you travel — and play any narration. GPS just makes it hands-free while you’re actually walking the site.
No. Use the “Download for offline” button before you go, and the entire tour — audio, maps, narration text — works without any data connection. Tap-to-play and the map both work fully offline. GPS itself doesn’t need data; only the download does.
Add the icon first, then download from the icon. On iPhone a guide downloaded in Safari cannot be seen by the home screen icon, so downloading first means downloading the whole thing twice.
Putting it on your home screen — iPhone or iPad (Safari):
On Android (Chrome): tap the three-dot menu at the top right, tap Add to Home screen (some phones say Install app), then confirm. On Android either order works.
If you opened this link from inside Instagram, Facebook or Gmail, you are in that app’s built-in browser. It cannot add anything to your home screen, and a guide downloaded there is thrown away when the app closes. Open the link in Safari or Chrome first.
Two backstops. First, the map shows every site — just tap the marker for the place in front of you. Second, you can manually queue any narration even when GPS is off. The platform never assumes GPS works; it’s the convenience layer, not the gate.
The audio runs ~1–2 hours total, but you walk at your own pace. 13 narration points across the site. Most visitors take 2–4 hours; some spread it over multiple visits. Once you buy it, it’s yours — there’s no expiry and no subscription. Come back next year if you like; the link in your receipt always works.
One purchase covers one device session. Most couples share earbuds and use a single phone — the audio is paced for that. If you want everyone listening on their own device, each person needs their own purchase. We do not gate sharing aggressively; we trust visitors to do the right thing.
Full refund if you never trigger a single narration on-site. Partial refund based on how far you got. See the refund policy for specifics.