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Spanish Town is the capital and the largest town in the parish of St. Catherine in the historic county of Middlesex, Jamaica. It was the Spanish and British capital of Jamaica from 1534 until 1872. The town is home to numerous memorials, the national archives , and one of the oldest Anglican churches outside England (the others are in Virginia ...
St Catherine is located at It is bordered by St Andrew in the east, Clarendon in the west, and by St Mary and St Ann in the north. It has an area of 1,192 km 2, making it one of Jamaica's largest parishes and it is one of the fastest growing parishes in the nation and has the largest economy out of all fourteen parishes.
Columbus Statue, St. Ann's Bay; Marcus Garvey 20230605 Churches, cemeteries & tombs. Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, St. Ann's Bay; St. Peter Martyr Site (ruins of old Church), St. Ann's Bay; Historic sites. 32 Market Street, St. Ann's Bay – birthplace of National Hero the Rt. Excellent Marcus Garvey; Miscellaneous. Cave Valley Chimney
Jamaica Music Museum; Hanover Museum; Liberty Hall: The Legacy of Marcus Garvey [Michael Manley Foundation] Military Museum; Museum of St. James; National Gallery of Jamaica; Natural History Museum of Jamaica; Peoples’ Museum of Craft and Technology; Peter Tosh Museum; Sir Noël Coward Museum; Taino Museum of the First Jamaicans; Trench Town ...
Bog Walk is a town in the parish of Saint Catherine, Jamaica.. In 1898 work started on a hydroelectric power plant on the Rio Cobre near Bog Walk. The plant (1,500 H.P.) was completed the next year and used to power Kingston's tramway system (until then the cars were hauled by pairs of mules). [2]
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.
The White Marl Taino site is an archaeological site between Kingston and Spanish town of Jamaica. Several archaeological studies in Jamaica have contributed to public knowledge regarding Amerindians. Across the entire island, the Archaeological Society of Jamaica has conducted excavations and surveys of Arawak sites since 1965. [1]
Old Harbour Bay is a settlement in Jamaica.It has a population of 8,537 as of 2009. [1]Under Spanish Jamaica, Old Harbour was known as Esquivel. [2]Old Harbour Bay is located in St. Catherine Jamaica and comprises many smaller sub-divisions such as: Dagga Bay, Buddho, Crossroad, Blackwood Gardens Scheme, Settlement, Terminal, Salt Plane, Narine Lane (formerly known as Hellgate), Salt Gully ...