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  2. Portmore, Saint Catherine - Wikipedia

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    Portmore began as a large area for schematic residential development in the late 1960s, [5] as the West Indies Home Contractors (WIHCON) organization built thousands of prototype housing units in an effort to alleviate the over-population of Kingston; the first was called Independence City. [5]

  3. List of plantation great houses in Jamaica - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Harbour View, Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    Harbour View was built in 1960, two years before the country's Independence in 1962. The community was the first in Jamaica to have a community paper and its residents claim that the community was the first to host street dances. [1] Harbour View is located in East Kingston and can be described as one of the best communities to live and raise ...

  5. Kingston, Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    Kingston, Jamaica from the masthead of HMAS Melbourne - 1915. During the 1930s, island-wide riots led to the development of trade unions and political parties to represent workers. [20] The city became home to the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies. It was founded in 1948, with 24 medical students. [12]

  6. Trenchtown - Wikipedia

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    Trench Town (also Trenchtown) is a neighbourhood located in the parish of St. Andrew, part of which is in Kingston, the capital and largest city of Jamaica.Today Trench Town is the location of the Trench Town Culture Yard Museum, a National Heritage Site presenting the unique history and contribution of Trench Town to Jamaica.

  7. Tivoli Gardens, Kingston - Wikipedia

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    Tivoli Gardens was developed in West Kingston, Jamaica, between 1963 [3] and 1965 [4] by demolishing and redeveloping the area of the Rastafarian settlement Back-O-Wall. [5] The area was notorious in the 1950s as the worst slum in the Caribbean, where "three communal standpipes and two public bathrooms served a population of well over 5,000 people."

  8. Goldeneye (estate) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Spanish Town - Wikipedia

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    Built on the west bank of the Rio Cobre, the town lies 13 miles from Kingston on the main road. Its history was shaped by two significant colonial periods: Spanish rule from 1534 to 1655 and the English from 1655 to 1872. After that the capital was relocated to Kingston. The Anglican Church took over the 16th century cathedral.

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