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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.
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]
Firefly Estate (Noël Coward's House) Golden Clouds, Oracabessa; Harmony Hall Great House; Wentworth Estate; Lighthouses. Galina Lighthouse; Claude Stuart Park & WWI Cenotaph 20231007 Forts and naval and military monuments. Fort Haldane; Historic sites. Rio Nuevo Battle Site; Public buildings. Old Court House (Port Maria Civic Centre) Statues ...
Croft's Hill is a settlement in Jamaica. Crofts Hill, is a name given the ending of British Colonial rule, Crofts is the Scottish word for small agricultural holdings. A sugar factory "Ludlow Works" which milled sugar canes from miles around, Arthur Seat, Kellits and near the British horse market. Closed as new developments unfolded.
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.
Alexander Bravo (1797 – March 1868), sometimes spelled Alexandre Bravo, was a Jamaican merchant, politician and planter who served as Auditor-General of Jamaica. Bravo was the first Jew to be elected to the House of Assembly of Jamaica .
Alexandria is a town in the parish of Saint Ann, Jamaica. [3] The Armadale Juvenile Correctional Centre of the Department of Correctional Services, Jamaica was located in Alexandria. [4] On 22 May 2009 a fire went through the facility, killing 5 girls and injuring 13 girls.
The impact of Radburn's urban form on energy conservation for short, local trips was considered in a 1970 study by John Lansing of the University of Michigan. [6] The study found Radburn's design to have important implications for energy conservation: 47% of its residents shopped for groceries on foot, compared to 23% for Reston, Virginia (another Radburn-type development but more car-oriented ...