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. Macdonald's course was finished in December 1921, with the assistance of Portuguese workers from the Azores. The BDC also encouraged the richest of visitors to build their own mansions at Tucker's Town. Childs Frick and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller were among the early elites to build summer homes. The hotel itself was completed, after two years of construction, on 30 November 1931. Opened by the Governor, General Sir Thomas Astley Cubitt, it featured 400 rooms and was built by 600 Azorean contractors. Prominent visitors were often photographed and used to market Bermuda, and included Babe Ruth, Albert Einstein, Harpo Marx, Irving Berlin and Shirley Temple. In 1935, almost 75,000 tourists visited the overseas territory, compared to 27,000 in 1911 and less than 1,400 in 1885. Following the Second World War – during which Tucker's Town was garrisoned as the site of the Cable and Wireless transatlantic telegraph cable hut – the Mid Ocean Club (and Furness, who by that point ran several more hotels in Bermuda) was struggling financially, and in 1951 it was sold to its members. Golf course architect Robert Trent Jones was hired to redesign the course, though he made few changes to MacDonald's design. 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), Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi and Mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg are known residents. Tucker's Town gave its name to a song by Hootie & the Blowfish on the 1996 album Fairweather Johnson. References Populated places in Bermuda Populated places established in 1616 St. George's Parish, Bermuda 1616 establishments in the British Empire