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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.
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 plantations and pens in Jamaica by county and parish including historic parishes that have since been merged with modern ones. Plantations produced crops, such as sugar cane and coffee, while livestock pens produced animals for labour on plantations and for consumption.
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.
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Port Maria Civic Centre, once the St.Mary Parish Courthouse. Saint Mary is a parish located in the northeast section of Jamaica. With a population of 114,227 [1] it is one of Jamaica's smallest parishes, located in the county of Middlesex. Its chief town and capital is Port Maria, located on the coast.
Columbus Statue, St. Ann's Bay; Marcus Garvey 20230605 Churches, cemeteries & tombs. Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, St. Ann's Bay; St. Peter Martyr Site (ruins of old Church), St. Ann's Bay; Historic sites. 32 Market Street, St. Ann's Bay – birthplace of National Hero the Rt. Excellent Marcus Garvey; Miscellaneous. Cave Valley Chimney
S. J. Manley, the paternal grandfather of Norman Manley, was a shopkeeper at Kepp, New Market, in the 1860s. [1] His grave was rediscovered in 2016. [2]In June 1979, New Market was heavily affected by floods induced by Tropical Depression One, which caused the deaths of 41 people across Jamaica. [3]