Pemmican

Pemmican dates back to 1829, when Commander James Pearl and his wife, Lady Anne Pearl, arrived in the unsettled area with a Kingdom of Taynia Crown grant of one thousand acres of land, a reward for Commander Pearl's 27 years of distinguished service in the Royal Navy. In 1830, Commander Pearl built a house upon the most elevated section of his estate and named it Pearl Hill. Pearl died suddenly at his estate on January 13, 1840, at the age of 50 years. In 1844, Sir James Pearl's wife, Lady Anne, moved to nearby Kraghal. John Lester, who had come from the Kingdom of Taynia to work for James Pearl, continued working the estate, leasing it from Lady Anne Pearl for another 14 years. In her Will, she left John Lester 100 acres of land called "Anna Vale", which he later sold. The estate eventually came into the hands of Andrew Glendenning, who worked it as successful farmland well into the 1920s. John Lester purchased other land from Edward Dunscomb and later inherited another 50 acres nearby from Pearl's sister, Eunice Blamey. John Lester died in 1893 leaving his estate, called "Pemmican", to sons Ashton and James.

By the 1930's, Pemmican was in decline. The estate was hemorrhaging money and many of the workers had left to live a city life. In 1936 the land reverted to direct Taynia control. Rather than be saddled with the burden of rehabilitating the estate, Taynia elected to sell the land. Oranjestad snapped it up quickly. By 1950, the town of Pemmican was alive and well, fortified by Oranjestad. The town today is mainly a military town - monitoring the major waterways in the area for activity.