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Kensington Estate [25] [26] Old Montpelier [27] The Destruction of Roehampton Estate in the parish of St. James's in January 1832 the property of J. Baillie Esq. Lithograph, Adolphe Duperly, Jamaica 1833. Roehampton [28] "Rose Hall" by James Hakewill, 1820–21. [23] Rose Hall [29] Running Gut [25] [30] Spring Vale Pen [31]
Richard Hope was a commander in the British Army and received his estate due to his assistance in gaining control of Jamaica. [2] It was developed as a sugar plantation with a watermill . In the 19th century the property was inherited by Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos .
Roger Hope Elletson returned to Jamaica and is recorded as the owner of an estate called "Merrymans Hill" in St Andrew, Jamaica, which spanned 600 acres. By 1753, he "owned" 93 enslaved people. [ 1 ] In the 1760s his brother and his mother died, leaving him in possession of the Hope Estate.
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.
Devon House, Hope Road; Mona Great House, off Mona Road; Oakton House, Maxfield Avenue “Regardless”, 4 Washington Drive; 24 Tucker Avenue, former residence of National Hero, the Rt. Excellent Alexander Bustamante; Churches, cemeteries & tombs. Jamaica Free Baptist Church, August Town Road; St. Andrew Parish Church, Hagley Park Road
The Hope Botanical Gardens and the Hope Zoo, located on Old Hope Road, include a botanical garden, orchid house, and stone aqueduct. There is also a children's amusement park and a zoo. They are located on what was formerly the Hope Estate. In 1881, the government acquired the land and laid out the gardens.