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Barbados has a number of plantations and great house properties that were instrumental in the islands' booming sugar trade. Families often owned several plantations and the acreage of each often changed when owners bought and/or sold plots of nearby land. The sizes quoted here had been recorded as of 1915.
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The Drax's Caribbean slave plantations and estates then descended with that of Charborough House in Dorset. [1] [2] By 1680, Henry Drax was the owner of the largest plantations on Barbados, then in the parish of St. John. [3] A planter-merchant, Drax had a hired "proper persons' to act in, and do all business in Bridgetown". [4]
A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados (1673) The earliest printed map of Barbados by Ligon. Richard Ligon (1585?–1662), an English author, lost his fortune as a royalist during the English Civil War (1642-1651), and during this turbulent time in England he found himself, as he notes in his narrative, a "stranger in my own country.”
The industrial heritage of Barbados, an island nation in the Caribbean, is exemplified by a number of specific structures still standing. Notable historical industrial buildings of Barbados include: Codrington College - A college that was first used as a sugar plantation. Built around ancient Amerindian archaeological sites, including burials.
Upon the death of Christopher Codrington in 1710, the two estates were left to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel to fund the establishment of college in Barbados stating his "Desire to have the Plantations Continued Entire and three hundred negros at Least always Kept there on, and a Convenient Number of Professors and Scholars maintain'd."
The "Paleologus and Beal" plantation on a 1685 map of Barbados, marked with a pineapple (to the left, below "Topp"). Theodorious, or Theodore, Paleologus was born c. 1660 [2] as the only child of Ferdinand Paleologus and Rebecca Pomfrett, the daughter of a Barbadian landowner. [3]
Barbados is an island country in the southeastern Caribbean Sea, situated about 100 miles (160 km) east of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.Roughly triangular in shape, the island measures some 21 miles (34 km) from northwest to southeast and about 14 miles (23 km) from east to west at its widest point.