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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.
Kensington Estate [25] [26] Old Montpelier [27] 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]
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.
Lyssons is named after Nicholas Lycence, who was the member for St. Thomas in the East in the Jamaican Assembly from 1671 to 1672. [1]The Lyssons Estate was a sugar plantation located in Lyssons which was owned by Simon Taylor, who was once the wealthiest sugar planter in the Colony of Jamaica and one of the wealthiest men in the British Empire in the eighteenth century.
Brown's Town is located in northwest St Ann in the Dry Harbour Mountains. [5] The town is about 12.87 km (8 mi) from the island's north coast. [5] The ugli fruit was first discovered in 1914 growing wild near the town.
Temple Hall is a predominantly residential community in northern St Andrew, Jamaica.It is named after the estate and great house which it adjoins. [1] [2]It is bounded to the east by the Wag Water River and is essentially a linear settlement strung out along a short section of the A3 road at an elevation of about 1,000 feet (300 m).
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.
Thomas Properties Group was a real estate investment trust based in City National Plaza in Los Angeles, California. On December 20, 2013, Thomas Properties was acquired by Parkway Properties . History