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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.
The Encino oak was the most magnificent of the community's oaks, so large that Louise Avenue was split to accommodate its enormous 150-foot (46 m) canopy, 8-foot (2.4 m) diameter, and 24-foot (7.3 m) circumference. [3] [2] It has been said that the Encino oak "creates a woodsy atmosphere more resembling a whole forest than just a single tree". [2]
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.
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.
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 ...
Herrling used money from the sale to help pay for a home in West Hills, according to the affidavit. After the house was sold out from under him, Tascon filed a lawsuit in an attempt to get it back.
Kerr-Jarrett was the son of the Hon. Herbert Jarrett Kerr, Custos of Trelawny Parish Jamaica, and Henrietta Theresa Vidal. [1] His grandfather had also been a Custos in Jamaica. [2] The Kerr-Jarrett family owned most of the land on which Montego Bay now stands including the 3,000 acre Barnett Estate and 18th century Great House. [5] [6]
This category contains articles related to the native trees of Jamaica. Taxa of the lowest rank are always included. Higher taxa are included only if endemic. This category follows the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions.