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Upon the death of Christopher Codrington in 1710, the two estates were left to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel to fund the establishment of college in Barbados stating his "Desire to have the Plantations Continued Entire and three hundred negros at Least always Kept there on, and a Convenient Number of Professors and Scholars maintain'd."
By 1913 the owner was Lears Estate Company Lodge St. Michael 170 By 1913 the owner was McConney Lower Birney St. Michael 218 By 1913 the owner was Mahon Lower Estate St. Michael 474 By 1913 the owner was Frere et al. Mount Clapham St. Michael 343 By 1913 the owner was Evelyn Neils St. Michael 213 By 1913 the owner was Gibbs Pine St. Michael 452
Drax Hall Estate is a sugarcane plantation situated in Saint George, Barbados, in the Caribbean. Drax Hall still stands on the site where sugarcane was first cultivated on Barbados and is one of the island 's two remaining Jacobean houses .
Barbados is an island country in the southeastern Caribbean Sea, situated about 100 miles (160 km) east of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.Roughly triangular in shape, the island measures some 21 miles (34 km) from northwest to southeast and about 14 miles (23 km) from east to west at its widest point.
St Nicholas Abbey is located in Saint Peter, Barbados, and is a plantation house, museum and rum distillery. [1] Colonel Benjamin Berringer built the house in 1658. [ 2 ] This house is one of only three genuine Jacobean mansions in the Western Hemisphere . [ 2 ]
Sir William Courten or Curteen (1572–1636) was a wealthy 17th century merchant, operating from London. He financed the colonisation of Barbados , but lost his investment and interest in the islands to the Earl of Carlisle .
Chattel house in Barbados with additions. Chattel house is a Barbadian term for a small moveable wooden house that working class people would occupy. The term goes back to the plantation days when the home owners would buy houses designed to move from one property to another. The word "chattel" means movable property so the name was appropriate ...
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