who in 1800 had acquired nearly of the area. In 1882, Talbot sold part of his estate for a nominal fee so that a school could be built. The school's eight trustees planned for a one-room school that would also be used to encourage temperance (see also: temperance movement). The schoolhouse survives as "Lookout Cottage" at the entrance of the Mid Ocean Club. Tourism centre By the twentieth century, the area was one of Bermuda's poorest and most neglected locales. The Bermuda Development Company was formed in response to growing American tourism. This body aimed to create an exclusive and prestigious enclave for wealthy tourists, and was empowered to force residents to sell their land. The plan was favoured by most Bermudians, who were excited by the prospect of a post-war tourism revival, and a petition objecting to the plan was signed by only 24 people, mostly belonging to a handful of closely related families residing in Tucker's Town. The land was purchased for well-below asking price, and many of the displaced moved to the area of Devil's Hole. Most of the signatories of the 23 July, 1920, petition against the planned land acquisitions and redevelopment called for in the "Bermuda Development Company Act (No. 2), 1920" were related to the Talbot Brothers band, including their maternal grandfather, Oliver Constantine Lambert, parents Osmond Charles Fanshaw Talbot (husband of Mamie Susan Kennedy Augusta Lambert) and Ainslie Letitia Dansmore Manders (born Lambert), maternal uncles Stewart Hastings Lambert and Oliver Ceylon Lambert, maternal aunts Essie Celina Gertrude Lambert, Ann Mahew Constantine Simmons, and Ada Permelia Arlene Simmons, and other relatives Eliza Harriet Talbot (Smith), Rose Ann Smith (possibly a namesake of their maternal grandmother, Rose Ann Lambert, whose maiden surname was Smith), Dina Smith (the sister of their maternal grandmother), and five other Smiths, to whom they were related through both the Lambert (via their maternal grandmother, Rose Ann Lambert, born Rose Ann Smith) and Talbot families. Other signatories were Minnie Andrew Palmer, Henry Nelms, Clarkson Frederick Burgess, Henry Thomas Harvey, Oscar Anderson, and Lancelot Laud Havard, the Rector of Hamilton and Smith's Glebe. 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. Many of these relatives were participants in the civil suit of the descendants of Josiah Smith (the maternal grandfather of sisters