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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.
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]
The University Hospital of the West Indies, Andrews Memorial Hospital, Campion College; Jamaica 4-H Clubs; Kingsway United Church, Andrews Seventh-day Adventist Church, St. Andrew Parish Church, St. Margaret's Church - Anglican, Sts. Peter and Paul Church - Roman Catholic, St. Thomas Aquinas Centre - Roman Catholic, Church of the Ascension ...
Trinity plantation (centre) on James Robertson's map of 1804 [2] 1874 auction sale map of Trinity Estate. [3] Trinity was a plantation in colonial Jamaica, located south of Port Maria, in Saint Mary Parish, one of several plantations owned by Zachary Bayly that formed part of the area known as Bayly's Vale. By the early nineteenth century, over ...
Les Jolies Eaux is a villa situated at the southern tip of Mustique Island. [6] The villa's name is a French term which translates to ‘beautiful waters’. [7] This name was coined by locals as a result of the prime geological location of the property which overlooks the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic. [8]
Seville Great House; Columbus Statue, St. Ann's Bay; Marcus Garvey 20230605 Churches, cemeteries & tombs. Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, St. Ann's Bay; St. Peter Martyr Site (ruins of old Church), St. Ann's Bay; Historic sites. 32 Market Street, St. Ann's Bay – birthplace of National Hero the Rt. Excellent Marcus Garvey; Miscellaneous ...
The West Indian Incumbered Estates Acts were Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of 1854, 1858, 1862, 1864, 1872, and 1886 that allowed creditors and other interested parties to apply for the sale of estates (plantations) in the British colonies in the West Indies despite legal encumbrances that would normally prevent such a sale.
St Catherine is located at It is bordered by St Andrew in the east, Clarendon in the west, and by St Mary and St Ann in the north. It has an area of 1,192 km 2, making it one of Jamaica's largest parishes and it is one of the fastest growing parishes in the nation and has the largest economy out of all fourteen parishes.