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Most of the coffee grown on the island is a derivative of the Brazilian variety known as Coffea arabica Typica, constituting 70% of the yield, while other varieties grown are hybrid varieties of caturra, geisha, etc. [3] The coffee that is grown in the Blue Mountains region, known as the Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee, is said to be of very high quality and is mostly exported. [3]
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]
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Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee is a globally protected certification mark, meaning only coffee certified by the Jamaica Commodities Regulatory Authority [5] (previously the Coffee Industry Board of Jamaica) can be labelled as such. It comes from a recognised growing region in the Blue Mountain region of Jamaica, and the Coffee Industry Board of ...
Mavis Bank is a rural coffee farming community approximately 10 miles (16 km) north east of Kingston, Jamaica in east rural St. Andrew in the Blue Mountains, close to the border of Portland. [ 3 ] The town takes its name from a surrounding coffee (named after Mavisbank House an historic house in Scotland ) which has been owned by the Munn ...
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.
Norbrook is an upscale neighbourhood of the Kingston Metropolitan Area of Jamaica, with approximately 15,000 residents and is an important residential, shopping and commercial centre of the city itself. Norbrook is regarded as anywhere from the Immaculate Conception High School (in the South) to about 100m up "The Hill" (in the North).
Albion was a sugar plantation in Saint David Parish, Jamaica. Created during or before the 18th century, it had at least 451 slaves when slavery was abolished in most of the British Empire in 1833. By the end of the 19th-century it was the most productive plantation in Jamaica due to the advanced refining technology it used.