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The Jamaica National Heritage Trust is responsible for the promotion, preservation, and development of Jamaica's material cultural heritage (buildings, monuments, bridges, etc.). [1] The organisation maintains the list of National Heritage Sites in Jamaica. [4] It is chartered by The Jamaica National Heritage Trust Act, 1985. [5]
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.
Cherry Garden Great House, 46 Russell Heights; Devon House, Hope Road; Mona Great House, off Mona Road; Oakton House, Maxfield Avenue “Regardless”, 4 Washington Drive; 24 Tucker Avenue, former residence of National Hero, the Rt. Excellent Alexander Bustamante; Churches, cemeteries & tombs. Jamaica Free Baptist Church, August Town Road
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.
|A Great House is the main dwelling on a plantation or estate. Usually grand, in other countries they might be called manor or country houses. Usually grand, in other countries they might be called manor or country houses.
Great Houses in Jamaica (10 P) H. Historic house museums in Jamaica (3 P) Pages in category "Houses in Jamaica" This category contains only the following page.
This is a list of lighthouses in Jamaica. There are nine onshore lighthouses in operation and two offshore. [ 1 ] They are maintained by the Port Authority of Jamaica , an agency of the Ministry of Transport and Works .
Hibbert House, also known as Headquarters House, is the head office of the Jamaica National Heritage Trust. It is located at 79 Duke Street in Kingston, Jamaica . It was built in 1755 by Thomas Hibbert , a wealthy English merchant, to serve as his residence.