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This is a list of plantation great houses in Jamaica.These houses were built in the 18th and 19th centuries when sugar cane made Jamaica the wealthiest colony in the West Indies. [1] Sugar plantations in the Caribbean were worked by enslaved African people [ 2 ] until the aboltion of slavery in 1833.
Goldeneye estate. Goldeneye is the original name of novelist Ian Fleming's estate on Oracabessa Bay on the northern coastline of Jamaica.He bought 15 acres (6.1 ha) adjacent to the Golden Clouds estate in 1946 and built his home on the edge of a cliff overlooking a private beach.
|A Great House is the main dwelling on a plantation or estate. Usually grand, in other countries they might be called manor or country houses. Usually grand, in other countries they might be called manor or country houses.
Brimmer Hall is a Jamaican Great House and 642 acres (2.60 km 2) plantation [2] located near Port Maria, in Saint Mary Parish, Jamaica. In the eighteenth century Brimmer Hall was owned by Zachary Bayly as part of a series of contiguous sugar plantations. These consisted of Trinity, Tryall, and Roslyn Pen as well as Brimmer Hall.
Lists of buildings and structures in Jamaica (1 C, 7 P) B. Buildings and structures in Montego Bay (4 P) F. Former buildings and structures in Jamaica (1 C) N.
Rose Hall is a Jamaican Georgian plantation house now run as a historic house museum.It is located in Montego Bay, Jamaica with a panoramic view of the coast. Thought to be one of the country's most impressive plantation great houses, it had fallen into ruins by the 1960s, but was then restored.
This is a list of plantations and pens in Jamaica by county and parish including historic parishes that have since been merged with modern ones. Plantations produced crops, such as sugar cane and coffee, while livestock pens produced animals for labour on plantations and for consumption.
Great Houses in Jamaica (10 P) H. Historic house museums in Jamaica (3 P) Pages in category "Houses in Jamaica" This category contains only the following page.