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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.
The modern parishes of Jamaica Cane Cutters in Jamaica in the 1890s. Anonymous. [1]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.
Rose Hall is a Jamaican Georgian plantation house now run as a historic house museum.It is located in Montego Bay, Jamaica with a panoramic view of the coast. Thought to be one of the country's most impressive plantation great houses, it had fallen into ruins by the 1960s, but was then restored.
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
In 1680, the median size of a plantation in Barbados had increased to about 60 slaves. Over the decades, the sugar plantations began expanding as the transatlantic trade continued to prosper. In 1832, the median-size plantation in Jamaica had about 150 slaves, and nearly one of every four bondsmen lived on units that had at least 250 slaves. [4]
Green Park Great House was purchased by Ray Fremmer, an American WW2 veteran, an eccentric amateur historian [27] and archaeologist originally from Boston, who moved to Jamaica before 1960. [28] Fremmer was the author of the 1963 book, Jamaica's heroes and patriots, [29] and led the 1965 excavation of the heroes of the Morant Bay rebellion. [30]
The plantation "great house", known locally as Albion Castle, was already in ruins when Frank Cundall wrote his Historic Jamaica in 1915. [3] [14] Its remains, an aqueduct, and a waterwheel survived as of 2013. [14] In that year, a travel guide described the former slave house at Albion as being occupied by descendants of the estate's former ...
|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.