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Goldeneye estate. Goldeneye is the original name of novelist Ian Fleming's estate on Oracabessa Bay on the northern coastline of Jamaica.He bought 15 acres (6.1 ha) adjacent to the Golden Clouds estate in 1946 and built his home on the edge of a cliff overlooking a private beach.
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 historic Round Hill hotel and villa resort near Montego Bay in Hopewell, Hanover, Jamaica opened in 1952. It is located on a 100-acre (40 ha) peninsula and has entertained many celebrities and politicians including John F. Kennedy, Ralph Lauren, Paul Newman and Bob Hope.
Jamaica [a] is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At 10,990 square kilometres (4,240 sq mi), it is the third-largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola —of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean . [ 9 ]
In 2007, a plaque was erected at Witter Park, Sligoville on 23 May, as a Labour Day event - to commemorate Jamaica's first Free Village. Sturge Town was founded in 1838 as a Free Village and still survives. It is a small rural village about 10 miles from Brown's Town, Saint Ann Parish.
A New and Exact Mapp of the Island of Jamaica: Charles Bochart and Humphrey Knollis [8] 24: 1688: Insula Jamaica: Robert Morden: 49: 1710: Neiuwe Kaart van het Eyland Jamaica: Hermann Moll: 1711: Jamaica: 1715: A New Map of the English Empire in the Ocean of America or West Indies: John Senex: 1717: A New Map of the Island of Jamaica: Herman ...
The current owner is Richard Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, a British former member of parliament, who inherited the property after the death of his father, Henry Walter Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax (1928–2017), a former High Sheriff of Dorset. The Drax family also owned slave plantations in Jamaica, which they sold in the mid-1700s.
On 10 July 1835, Reverend James Phillippo, an English Baptist minister and anti-slavery activist stationed in Spanish Town, purchased 25 acres (10 ha) of land for £100 and established the first "free village" in the West Indies. [1] The land was subsequently divided into quarter-acre lots which the freed slaves could purchase for £3 each. [2]