The Pirate Republic Had Questionable Zoning Laws Nassau ~ Comfort Colors Tee

Twelve Years ~ No Permits ~ One Very Busy Harbor

From about 1706 until July 1718, Nassau belonged to whoever had a ship in the harbor and a crew on the beach. Nobody called it a republic at the time; the name came later, for an arrangement with no mayor, no council and no setback requirements. Then Woodes Rogers arrived with a royal pardon, and the neighborhood association finally had a chair.

• For the one who knows what mixed use means: Buy it for the city planner, the zoning board regular, and the friend who built a deck without telling the county.
• Permitting, absent: Nobody inspected anything, and every structure stood by the simple method of nobody stopping you.
• Surveyed by: Part of Pirate History & Legends, where the town that ran without rules ran out of time in 1718.