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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.
Trinity plantation (centre) on James Robertson's map of 1804 [2] 1874 auction sale map of Trinity Estate. [3] Trinity was a plantation in colonial Jamaica, located south of Port Maria, in Saint Mary Parish, one of several plantations owned by Zachary Bayly that formed part of the area known as Bayly's Vale. By the early nineteenth century, over ...
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.
Firefly Estate (Noël Coward's House) Golden Clouds, Oracabessa; Harmony Hall Great House; Wentworth Estate; Lighthouses. Galina Lighthouse; Claude Stuart Park & WWI Cenotaph 20231007 Forts and naval and military monuments. Fort Haldane; Historic sites. Rio Nuevo Battle Site; Public buildings. Old Court House (Port Maria Civic Centre) Statues ...
The following is a list of the most populous settlements in Jamaica. Definitions Kingston, capital of Jamaica Montego Bay The following definitions have been used: City: Official city status on a settlement is only conferred by Act of Parliament. Only three areas have the designation; Kingston when first incorporated in 1802 reflecting its early importance over the then capital Spanish Town ...
Jamaica cricket team, Jamaica Tallawahs: End names: Blue Mountains End Headley Stand End: International information; First Test: 3–12 April 1930: West Indies v England: Last Test: 20–24 August 2021: West Indies v Pakistan: First ODI: 26 April 1984: West Indies v Australia: Last ODI: 16 January 2022: West Indies v Ireland: First T20I: 19 ...
Portmore is one of the largest urban areas in St. Catherine with respect to human settlement, having a population 156,468(2001 census) and an annual growth rate of 4% since 1991. [3] Portmore is built on a generally flat plain facing the Kingston Harbour with an intricate canal system which prevents flooding. [5] Much of the land is reclaimed ...
It was established in 1734 as a sugar estate by Attorney General of Jamaica Andrew Arcedeckne, [1] and was subsequently run by his son Chaloner Arcedeckne. [2] In 1775, John Kelly (the supervisor of the plantation) recorded a total yield of 740 hogshead of sugar, more than double that of 1769 (350).