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William Beckford's Roaring River Estate near Savanna-la-Mar, engraving (1778) after George Robertson. William Beckford of Somerley, Suffolk was the son of Richard Beckford (c. 1711–1756) and his friend Elizabeth Hay ("whom I have esteemed and do esteem in all respects as my wife" [2]), and was born in Jamaica in 1744 into an influential slave-holding family of colonial Jamaica. [3]
This is a complete list of National Heritage sites in Jamaica as published by the Jamaica National Heritage Trust. [1] Reference Map of Jamaica. Cornwall County:
Jamaica accepted the convention on January 18, 1980, making its historical sites eligible for inclusion on the list. Jamaica has a single World Heritage Site, Blue and John Crow Mountains, which was inscribed in 2015. Country also has two sites on the tentative list. [3]
Spanish Town is the site of an early cast-iron bridge, designed by Thomas Wilson and manufactured by Walker and Company of Rotherham, England. Spanning the Rio Cobre, the bridge was erected in 1801 at a cost of £4,000. [ 6 ]
Pages in category "Monuments and memorials in Jamaica" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. F.
After 146 years of Spanish rule, a large group of British sailors and soldiers landed in the Kingston Harbour on 10 May 1655, during the Anglo-Spanish War. [4] The English, who had set their sights on Jamaica after a disastrous defeat in an earlier attempt to take the island of Hispaniola, marched toward Villa de la Vega, the administrative center of the island.
The Zemi Figures from Vere, Jamaica (this area is situated in the modern parish of Clarendon) [1] are an important collection of pre-Columbian wooden figures found in the Carpenters Mountains in Jamaica in the late 18th century. They were originally made by the Taíno people and may have served as venerated objects that housed local spirits or ...
National Heroes Park (formerly King George VI Memorial Park) is a botanical garden in Kingston, Jamaica.The largest open space in Kingston at 50 acres in size, [1] National Heroes Park features numerous monuments; it is the burial site of many of Jamaica's national heroes, prime ministers and cultural leaders.