It is the only part of the parish on the Main Island, and includes the Tucker's Town Peninsula that today is the site of many homes belonging to wealthy non-Bermudians.

[1] Tucker ignored these issues and began to lay out a street grid plan – featuring a 12-foot-wide (3.7 m) road—and had a small chapel built,[2] but was unable to attract any migrants from the main settlement at St. George's.

[2] By 1750, a small civilian community—35 families living on 350 acres (1.4 km2) of public land—had finally been established, as had a whaling station to support hunting off Bermuda's south shore.

[10] The petition was unsuccessful and Tucker's Town was compulsorily purchased with Dina Smith the last resident to leave when she was forcibly removed from her property in 1923.

[11][8] Many of these relatives were participants in the civil suit of the descendants of Josiah Smith (the maternal grandfather of sisters Mamie Susan Kennedy Augusta Lambert and Ainslie Letitia Dansmore Lambert, the mothers of the Talbot Brothers band members) against the Bermuda Development Company in the Supreme Court in 1924 that resulted in compensation paid to the descendants for the land known as the Josiah Smith Estate at Tucker's Town.

The BDC partnered with Furness Withy, the steamship company that operated passenger liners between Bermuda and the United States, which hired Charles B. Macdonald to design a golf course for its new Castle Harbour Hotel, the Mid Ocean Club.

[15] Prominent visitors were often photographed and used to market Bermuda, and included Babe Ruth, Albert Einstein, Harpo Marx, Irving Berlin and Shirley Temple.

[12] Today, individuals such as American businessman and Presidential candidate Ross Perot (who made headlines in 1992 for his involvement in the dynamiting of a live coral reef near his mansion[18]), Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi and Mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg are known residents.