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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.
South Jamaica Houses is a housing project in South Jamaica, Queens, New York. It is nicknamed "40 Projects." It is nicknamed "40 Projects." [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The original complex, South Jamaica I Houses opened in 1940, [ 4 ] [ 5 ] while the second complex, South Jamaica II Houses , opened in 1954. [ 4 ]
Jamaica Estates was created in 1907 by the Jamaica Estates Corporation, which developed the hilly terminal moraine's 503 acres (2.04 km 2), while preserving many of the trees that had occupied the site. [5] The company was founded by Ernestus Gulick and Felix Isman, both of Philadelphia. [6]
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.
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.
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.