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The modern parishes of Jamaica Cane Cutters in Jamaica in the 1890s. Anonymous. [1]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.
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.
Pages in category "Plantations in Jamaica" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
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 ...
The banana-handling port, Port Morant, is located in Bowden, Golden Grove. [7] A path starting from Golden Grove leads to the 100 foot (30 m)-tall Morant Point lighthouse cast in London, England in 1841. [8] According to a 2009 census, Golden Grove had a population of 3,057. [9]
Detail of Brimmer Hall from "Trinity Estate, St. Mary's" by James Hakewill, 1820-21. [1] Brimmer Hall as shown on James Robertson's map of 1804. Brimmer Hall is a Jamaican Great House and 642 acres (2.60 km 2) plantation [2] located near Port Maria, in Saint Mary Parish, Jamaica.
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Major Richard Hope's estate was established after 1655 when the British took over Jamaica from the Spanish. [1] 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.