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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]
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.
Statue of Cristobal Columbus St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica Buildings of architectural and historic interest Anchor Priory 20230605. Bellevue Great House, Orange Hall; Edinburgh Castle – ruins, main road from Harmony Vale to Pedro; Moneague Inn; Seville Great House; Moneague Hotel, Moneague College Campus; Cave Valley Chimney; Our Lady of Perpetual ...
Jamaica [a] is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At 10,990 square kilometres (4,240 sq mi), it is the third-largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola —of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean . [ 9 ]
Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At 10,990 square kilometres (4,240 sq mi), it is the third-largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola —of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean .
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 ...
Walter Augustus Feurtado (1839 – 23 November 1910) was a Jamaican accountant, freemason, genealogist, and author whose biographical guide to the Official and Other Personages of Jamaica, from 1655 to 1790. (Kingston, 1896) has become an important source of biographical information for Jamaica.
Port Royal (Jamaican Patois: Puat Rayal) is a town located at the end of the Palisadoes, at the mouth of Kingston Harbour, in southeastern Jamaica.Founded in 1494 by the Spanish, it was once the largest and most prosperous city in the Caribbean, functioning as the centre of shipping and commerce in the Caribbean Sea by the latter half of the 17th century. [1]