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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.
This is a list of plantations and pens in Jamaica by county and parish including historic parishes that have since been merged with modern ones. Plantations produced crops, such as sugar cane and coffee, while livestock pens produced animals for labour on plantations and for consumption.
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He gave his name to Brown's Town, originally known as Hamilton Town, in St Ann, which he founded, [6] [9] and in 1805 he paid for the construction of the original St Mark's Anglican Church in Brown's Town. [10] He was a member of the House of Assembly of Jamaica in 1820 [11] and represented Saint Ann Parish in that assembly for 22 years. [9]
St James Parish Church, Jamaica This page was last edited on 12 October 2020, at 05:53 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
The town was founded by Hamilton Brown (died 1843) who is buried in the local Anglican church. [8] He owned much of the land in the area including Minard Estate. Surrounding estates were Huntley, New Hope, Orange Valley, Belleair, and Retreat. Brown's Town became significant as a market centre in the mid-19th century following the abolition of ...
The church was able to host a meeting of all workers in the West Indies from 5 to 15 November 1898 at Text Lane, in Kingston, Jamaica. By February 1899, there were six organized churches and 15 other congregations, with a total of 502 members and about 100 other Sabbath-keepers.
The first church was built between 1661 and 1664. This was the church of St Catherine in Spanish Town, constructed on the site of the earlier Spanish Church of the Red Cross, which had been destroyed by the fighting between 1655 and 1660. Other churches followed in the parishes of St Andrew (Half-Way-Tree), Vere (Alley), Port Royal, St David's ...