Nisbet Plantation has a long and very colourful history.  Fist built in 1778 as a sugar plantation, by Dr. Nisbet and his wife “Fanny” who later, in 1887 after the death of her husband, married Horatio Nelson, a dashingly handsome 28 year-old Captain in England’s Royal Navy Caribbean Fleet.  He eventually rose in rank to become Admiral Lord Nelson, victor of the Battle of Trafalgar, which finally turned the tide of the long running English-French war.

The Plantation eventually became an Inn in the 1950’s when the famous Mary Pomeroy purchased the property and converted several of the rooms in the Nisbet Great House to guest rooms.  Today the Great House still retains its relaxed West Indian Plantation style.  Individual guest cottages are scattered amid the avenues of tall coconut palms that now lead one down through the manicured lawns to the white sand beach.