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The plantation "great house", known locally as Albion Castle, was already in ruins when Frank Cundall wrote his Historic Jamaica in 1915. [3] [14] Its remains, an aqueduct, and a waterwheel survived as of 2013. [14] In that year, a travel guide described the former slave house at Albion as being occupied by descendants of the estate's former ...
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.
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.
Birnin Kebbi: Birnin Kebbi Marafa: Majema G/ Sarkin Karma; Majema G/H/Umaru Lori; Tudun Wada G/Liman Sarki; Baiti Limanci G/Ladan Na Musa; Baiti G/Uban Doma; S/Labbo Maijirgi G/Labbo Maijirgi; Majema G/Shehu Gaga; Tudun Wada G/Magatarkarda; Takalan G/Hakimi; Tudun Wada G/Gago; Takalau G/ Boyi Mairake; Tudun Wada G/Iyan B/Kebbi Birnin Kebbi ...
Map of Jamaica: Benedetto Bordone: A very simple map of Jamaica from Bordone's Isolario (The Book of Islands), printed in Venice in 1528. 2: 1562: Isola Cuba Nova: Girolamo Ruscelli: Fragment showing Jamaica from an early map of Cuba in Ruscelli's Atlas, probably the 1562 edition, published in Italy. [2] 4: 1572: Jamaica: Tomaso Porcacchi
Birnin Kebbi became the capital of the newly created Nigerian state of Kebbi in 1991. [8] Although Birnin Kebbi has declined as a river port because of silting as well as political conditions, it now serves as a collecting point for peanuts and rice and as a major local market centre in millet, sorghum, rice, fish, goats, and cattle. [9]
The seat of government for the emirate [1] [2] and district of this name is in Birnin Kebbi, which is the capital of Kebbi State and was capital of the historical Kingdom of Kebbi. [3] Founded in the sixteenth century by the Kabbawa, a Hausa people Gwandu today acts as one of the four emirates composing Kebbi State.
It is administered by the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation and is served by the Kingston 17 Post Office. Harbour View was built in 1960, two years before the country's Independence in 1962. The community was the first in Jamaica to have a community paper and its residents claim that the community was the first to host street dances. [1]