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Byde Mill Plantation House: St. George: 324 As recently as 1913 it was owned by the Skeete family. Drax Hall Plantation: St. George: 957 Once owned by Colonel James Drax, it is one of the oldest remaining buildings with a Jacobean-style of architecture in Barbados. By 1913 it was owned by Dunsany. As of 2017, owned by Richard Drax MP. Francia ...
The Codrington Plantations were two historic sugarcane producing estates on the island of Barbados, established in the 17th century by Christopher Codrington (c. 1640–1698) and his father of the same name.
The Drax's Caribbean slave plantations and estates then descended with that of Charborough House in Dorset. [1] [2] By 1680, Henry Drax was the owner of the largest plantations on Barbados, then in the parish of St. John. [3] A planter-merchant, Drax had a hired "proper persons' to act in, and do all business in Bridgetown". [4]
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the United States of America that are national memorials, National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places or other heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
The industrial heritage of Barbados, an island nation in the Caribbean, is exemplified by a number of specific structures still standing. Notable historical industrial buildings of Barbados include: Codrington College - A college that was first used as a sugar plantation. Built around ancient Amerindian archaeological sites, including burials.
He met and married a Barbadian and settled in Barbados. It was one of the last plantations built in Barbados. [1] The plantation grew and exported yams, eddoes, and sweet potatoes. Sugar was not grown due to the reduction of the price of sugar internationally at the time the house was built. [4]
English colonist William Vassall (1592–1656) is remembered both for promoting religious freedom in New England and commencing his family's ownership of slave plantations in the Caribbean. A patentee of the Massachusetts Bay Company, Vassall was among the merchants who petitioned Puritan courts for greater civil liberties and religious tolerance.
St Nicholas Abbey is located in Saint Peter, Barbados, and is a plantation house, museum and rum distillery. [1] Colonel Benjamin Berringer built the house in 1658. [ 2 ] This house is one of only three genuine Jacobean mansions in the Western Hemisphere . [ 2 ]