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Maroon Town, Jamaica, after the deportation of the Trelawny Maroons, the British colonial government took control of Trelawny Town, and established a military barracks there. It became known as Maroon Town, though no Maroons lived there any more. Accompong, along with Cudjoe's Town, Accompong was the main settlement of the Leeward Maroons ...
Moore Town is a Maroon settlement located in the Blue Mountains and John Crow Mountains of Portland, Jamaica, [1] accessible by road from Port Antonio.The easternmost Maroon town, Moore Town is located in the eastern end of the parish. [2]
Accompong (from the Asante name Acheampong) is a historical Maroon village located in the hills of St. Elizabeth Parish on the island of Jamaica.It is located in Cockpit Country, where Jamaican Maroons and Indigenous Taíno established a fortified stronghold in the hilly terrain in the 17th century.
The following is a list of the most populous settlements in Jamaica. Definitions Kingston, capital of Jamaica Montego Bay The following definitions have been used: City: Official city status on a settlement is only conferred by Act of Parliament. Only three areas have the designation; Kingston when first incorporated in 1802 reflecting its early importance over the then capital Spanish Town ...
Cockpit Country is an area in Trelawny and Saint Elizabeth, Saint James, Saint Ann, Manchester and the northern tip of Clarendon parishes, mostly within the west-central side, of Jamaica. The land is marked by lush, montane forests and steep-sided valleys and hollows , as deep as 120 metres (390 ft) in places, separated by conical hills and ...
Maroon Town is located in the conical Cockpit Country that spans parts of the parishes of St. James, St. Elizabeth and Trelawny. Located in Saint James Parish, Jamaica the community sits approximately 29 kilometers, southwest of Montego Bay, the parish capital. This former settlement of the Jamaican Maroons has a variety of Jamaican flora and ...
However, while Moore Town and Charles Town are situated in Portland Parish, Scott's Hall is on the westernmost edge of the range in St Mary. The only Leeward Maroon town in Jamaica is Accompong Town, located in the western Cockpit Country. [2] However, the Returned Maroons of Cudjoe's Town (Trelawny Town) now live just outside Maroon Town ...
By 1720, Nanny and Quao had organized and were leading the settlement of Windward Maroons; it was known as Nanny Town. Nanny Town was organized similarly to a typical Ashanti tribe in Africa. After the First Maroon War , a deed from the colonial government granted Nanny more than 500 acres (2.4 km 2 ) of land where the Maroons could live and ...