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The New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site, also known as New Windsor Cantonment, is located along NY 300, north one mile of Vails Gate, in the Town of New Windsor, Orange County, New York. The site features a reconstruction of the Continental Army 's final military encampment .
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 Russell Heights; Devon House, Hope Road
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.
History museums in Jamaica (1 C) L. Literary museums in Jamaica (1 P) Pages in category "Museums in Jamaica" ... University of the West Indies Museum
The death toll among the troops posted to the West Indies garrison, formerly regarded as virtually a death sentence, declined dramatically. [4] During the colonial period until 1959, Newcastle was used as a "change-of-air camp" by British regiments stationed in Jamaica.
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.
Mr. Morrison's letter, and the Sentinel newspaper article, caused the Palisades Interstate Park Commission (PIPC) to pursue development of an appropriate facility at New Windsor Cantonment to commemorate the history of the Purple Heart and to recognize all recipients. The name, Purple Heart Hall of Honor, was chosen.
List of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Orange County, New York This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Orange County, New York .