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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 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] The young Kerr-Jarrett was educated as a boarder at Bedford Modern School. [1] During World War I he served as a Lieutenant with the Royal Army Service Corps. [7]
When the Spanish occupied Jamaica, Montego Bay was an export point for lard, which was obtained from wild hogs in the forests. In many of the early maps of Jamaica, Montego Bay was listed as "Bahia de Manteca" (Lard Bay). The parish was given the name "St. James" in honour of King James II by Sir Thomas Modyford, the island's first English ...
Cornwall College is a public high school for boys established in 1896 and located on Orange Street in Montego Bay, Saint James, Jamaica. [2] It is the third oldest high school in the county of Cornwall. As of the 2022-23 school year, the school had an enrollment of just over 1,500 students and 80 classroom teachers, for a student–teacher ...
Inverness Town Council was replaced by the larger Inverness District Council in 1975, one of the lower-tier districts within the Highland region. The district council used the town house as its headquarters. [10] [11] Inverness District Council was in turn abolished in 1996 when the Highland region was redesignated as a single-tier council area ...
St James Parish Church, Jamaica is an eighteenth century church in Montego Bay, Jamaica. It was started in 1774 at a time when the town was increasing in importance as a centre for trade and the number of merchants was growing. It was built as the principal Anglican church in St James Parish, in Cornwall County, Jamaica.
Cambridge is a town in Jamaica.It is the main township of the parish of St James, nestled in mountains, fifteen (15) miles south east of the City of Montego Bay and its hub is historic Wilmot Max Ramsay Square [1] (Jamaica Gleaner, Thursday, 23 October 1986).