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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 ...
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.
Jamaica accepted the convention on January 18, 1980, making its historical sites eligible for inclusion on the list. Jamaica has a single World Heritage Site, Blue and John Crow Mountains, which was inscribed in 2015. Country also has two sites on the tentative list. [3]
On 10 July 1835, Reverend James Phillippo, an English Baptist minister and anti-slavery activist stationed in Spanish Town, purchased 25 acres (10 ha) of land for £100 and established the first "free village" in the West Indies. [1] The land was subsequently divided into quarter-acre lots which the freed slaves could purchase for £3 each. [2]
Accompong (from the Asante name Acheampong) is a historical Maroon village located in the hills of St. Elizabeth Parish on the island of Jamaica.It is located in Cockpit Country, where Jamaican Maroons and Indigenous Taíno established a fortified stronghold in the hilly terrain in the 17th century.
Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan; Historic Cold Spring Village in Cold Spring, New Jersey; Historic Richmond Town, New York; Knott's Berry Farm, Buena Park, California; Little Bighorn National Monument-Reenactment is known as Custer's Last Stand Reenactment in Crow Agency Montana. Maine Forest and Logging Museum, Bradley, Maine
Saint Ann is one of the oldest populated areas in the island of Jamaica tracing back to 600–650 A.D. It is believed to be the earliest Taino/Arawak settlement in Jamaica. When Christopher Columbus first came to Jamaica in 1494, he landed on the shores of Saint Ann at Discovery Bay, Jamaica. He returned to Jamaica on his fourth voyage and was ...