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The Jamaica Wine House, known locally as "the Jampot", is located in St Michael's Alley, Cornhill, in the heart of London's financial district. It was the first coffee house in London and was visited by the English diarist Samuel Pepys in 1660. [1] It is now a Grade II listed public house [2] and is set within a labyrinth of medieval courts and ...
Buildings of architectural and historic interest. Bob Marley Museum, Hope Road; Jamaica College Buildings: Simms Hall, Scotland Building, Assembly Hall, Chapel; Charlottenburgh House, Guava Ridge; Mico College Buildings: Kelvin Lodge, Cottage, Porter's Lodge, Chapel; Admiral's Mountain Great House, Cooper's Hill; Cherry Garden Great House, 46 ...
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.
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.
Although amateur history returned to its pages, the new editor was David Buisseret, an English academic at UWI. He was followed by Carl Campbell, a Jamaican UWI academic. By the 1980s, the amateur contribution had declined yet again, but this "was to some extent balanced by history-writing for the society's Bulletin as well as for newspapers ...
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