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James Robertson's map of Jamaica, published in 1804 based on a survey of 1796–99, identified 814 sugar plantations and around 2,500 pens or non-sugar plantations. [ 3 ] Cornwall County
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.
Pool Plantation is a 17th-century fishing plantation maintained by Sir David Kirke and his heirs at Ferryland in Newfoundland, Canada. The site was first settled in 1621 under a royal charter issued by King James I to Lord Baltimore. Pool Plantation was destroyed by French invaders in 1696.
Pages in category "Plantations in Jamaica" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the United States of America that are national memorials, National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places or other heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
The banana-handling port, Port Morant, is located in Bowden, Golden Grove. [7] A path starting from Golden Grove leads to the 100 foot (30 m)-tall Morant Point lighthouse cast in London, England in 1841. [8] According to a 2009 census, Golden Grove had a population of 3,057. [9]
In 1680, the median size of a plantation in Barbados had increased to about 60 slaves. Over the decades, the sugar plantations began expanding as the transatlantic trade continued to prosper. In 1832, the median-size plantation in Jamaica had about 150 slaves, and nearly one of every four bondsmen lived on units that had at least 250 slaves. [4]
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.