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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 .
Sterling, Virginia, refers most specifically to a census-designated place (CDP) in Loudoun County, Virginia, United States.The population of the CDP as of the 2020 United States Census was 30,337 [2] The CDP boundaries are confined to a relatively small area between Virginia State Route 28 on the west and Virginia State Route 7 on the northeast, excluding areas near SR 606 and the Dulles Town ...
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.
Algonkian Regional Park is located on the Potomac River in Sterling, Virginia at Cascades, Virginia.The 838-acre park is owned and operated by the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority (NOVA Parks) [1] [2] and contains open fields, picnic shelters, rental cottages, an event center for weddings and meetings, a boat launch with access to the Potomac River, the Volcano Island water park open ...
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.
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.
In July 2016, Fayval Williams pointed to the need for Jamaica to implement a national identification system. [24] As State Minister, Williams invited the Small Business Association of Jamaica (SBAJ) to formulate an implementation team to work with the government of Jamaica to strategise the growth and development of its members.
In 1958, the Jamaica National Heritage Trust was founded as the Jamaica National Trust Commission, the name being changed to the present form in 1985. [ 6 ] References