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Jamaica is an unincorporated community in Middlesex County, Virginia, United States. Jamaica is located on U.S. Route 17 9.3 miles (15.0 km) northwest of Saluda. Jamaica had a post office, which closed on August 5, 2006. [1] [3] The Virginia Motor Speedway is located in Jamaica.
The parishes of Jamaica are the main units of local government in Jamaica. They were created following the English settlement of Jamaica in 1655. This administrative structure for the Colony of Jamaica developed slowly. However, since 1 May 1867, Jamaica has been divided into the current fourteen parishes. These were retained after independence ...
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The parish is located at latitude 18°15'N, and longitude 77°56'W; to the west of Manchester, to the east of Westmoreland, and to the south of St. James and Trelawny. It covers an area of 1,212.4 km 2, making it Jamaica's second-largest parish, smaller only than Saint Ann's 1,212.6 km 2. The parish is divided into four electoral districts ...
This is a list of plantations and pens in Jamaica by county and parish including historic parishes that have since been merged with modern ones. Plantations produced crops, such as sugar cane and coffee, while livestock pens produced animals for labour on plantations and for consumption.
Spanish Town is the capital and the largest town in the parish of St. Catherine in the historic county of Middlesex, Jamaica. It was the Spanish and British capital of Jamaica from 1534 until 1872. The town is home to numerous memorials, the national archives , and one of the oldest Anglican churches outside England (the others are in Virginia ...
A New & Accurate Map of the Island of Jamaica. Divided into its Principal Parishes. Emanuel Bowen, 1752. [1]Saint John Parish was one of the historic parishes of Jamaica created following colonisation of the island by the British.