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Old Harbour Bay is a settlement in Jamaica.It has a population of 8,537 as of 2009. [1]Under Spanish Jamaica, Old Harbour was known as Esquivel. [2]Old Harbour Bay is located in St. Catherine Jamaica and comprises many smaller sub-divisions such as: Dagga Bay, Buddho, Crossroad, Blackwood Gardens Scheme, Settlement, Terminal, Salt Plane, Narine Lane (formerly known as Hellgate), Salt Gully ...
Old Harbour is located in southern St. Catherine near the island's southern coast. Nearby settlements and notable places include Old Harbour Bay , Longville Park, Free Town, McCooks Pen, Port Esquivel, Moores Pen and Little Goat Island.
The most densely populated areas are located on low-lying reclaimed lands. Portmore consists of communities such as Old Portmore, Greater Portmore, Braeton and Hellshire. [3] Portmore is one of the largest urban areas in St. Catherine with respect to human settlement, having a population 156,468(2001 census) and an annual growth rate of 4% ...
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.
San San is that bit of coast and mountain about 5 kilometers east of Port Antonio, Jamaica. San San encompasses about 2,000 acres (809 ha), from Drapers east to Blue Hole. The modern history of this part of Portland began when Captain Lorenzo Dow Baker, "the Banana King" purchased the western portion, then called Cold Harbour Estates in 1902 ...
Harbour View Moravian church 1967. The Harbour View Stadium, home stadium of the Harbour View F.C., is toward the north of Harbour View. Fort Nugent was built in the 18th century to the north west of Harbour View to defend Jamaica from invasion. The sole remnant of Fort Nugent is a Martello tower still standing on the site. [2] [3]
Norbrook is an upscale neighbourhood of the Kingston Metropolitan Area of Jamaica, with approximately 15,000 residents and is an important residential, shopping and commercial centre of the city itself. Norbrook is regarded as anywhere from the Immaculate Conception High School (in the South) to about 100m up "The Hill" (in the North).
Oracabessa is a small town in Saint Mary Parish, Jamaica 16 kilometres (10 mi) east of Ocho Rios.Its population is nearly 7,000. [1] Lit in the afternoons by an apricot light that may have inspired its Spanish name, Oracabeza, or "Golden Head," Oracabessa's commercial district consists of a covered produce market and a few shops and bars.