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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. Plantations produced crops, such as sugar cane and coffee, while livestock pens produced animals for labour on plantations and for consumption.
Harrison House, Montego Bay; Montpelier railway station, Jamaica; No. 1 King Street, Montego Bay; No. 2 Orange Street and No. 6 Corner Lane; Roehampton Great House; Rose Hall Great House; Town House, Montego Bay; Churches, cemeteries & tombs. Salter's Hill Baptist Church – ruin; St. James Parish Church; St. Mary's Anglican Church, Montpelier ...
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.
There are several lists of counties of Quebec, that are list articles listing counties for the jurisdictions of Quebec. List of former counties of Quebec; for counties, pre-1990, in the territory that is now the Canadian province of Quebec; List of regional county municipalities and equivalent territories in Quebec; for county-equivalents, post ...
The following is a list of the most populous settlements in Jamaica. Definitions Kingston, capital of Jamaica Montego Bay The following definitions have been used: City: Official city status on a settlement is only conferred by Act of Parliament. Only three areas have the designation; Kingston when first incorporated in 1802 reflecting its early importance over the then capital Spanish Town ...
Sandy Bay, a little seaside village on the way from Lucea to Montego Bay. Founded as a Free Village for emancipated slaves, it was a mid-1830s initiative of the congregation of the Baptist pastor Rev. Thomas Burchell , whose deacon was Sam Sharpe , executed in 1832 after the Baptist War slave rebellion until he died for the cause of abolition ...
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 ...
When the Spanish occupied Jamaica, Montego Bay was an export point for lard, which was obtained from wild hogs in the forests. In many of the early maps of Jamaica, Montego Bay was listed as "Bahia de Manteca" (Lard Bay). The parish was given the name "St. James" in honour of King James II by Sir Thomas Modyford, the island's first English ...