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According to a longtime resident: [2] Back in the days of plantation slavery in Jamaica, the Chapleton locality was a plantocracy settlement. Instead of going to church in the capital May Pen, the plantation owners built a church in Chapleton where they worshiped.
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The Chapelton Formation is a geologic formation in Jamaica. It preserves fossils dating back to the Paleogene period , Eocene epoch. Fossils of the possible species Charactosuchus kugleri have been found in the formation.
Jamaica is an upper-middle-income country [15] with an economy heavily dependent on tourism; it has an average of 4.3 million tourists a year. [20] Jamaica is a parliamentary constitutional monarchy, with power vested in the bicameral Parliament of Jamaica, consisting of an appointed Senate and a directly elected House of Representatives. [9]
The Dawkins family settled on Jamaica shortly after its seizure from the Spanish in 1655. James was the eldest son born to Henry Dawkins I (1698–1744), who was a wealthy sugar planter and slave owner [2] of Clarendon, Jamaica, and his wife, Elizabeth (1697?–1757), third daughter of Edward Pennant of Clarendon, chief justice of the island and of Elizabeth Moore.
The 2024–25 Jamaica Premier League is the 51st season of the top-tier football league in Jamaica. The season began on September 15, 2024, and scheduled to conclude on May 31, 2025. [ 1 ] Cavalier F.C. are the defending champions having won their third title the previous season.
Rev'd. T. Hughes of the Congregational Union of Jamaica convinced Davy to build a school and that he did accomplish at Rose Bank in Chapelton Clarendon. The school started with only two teachers, [ 2 ] Rev. Davy and Mrs. Hyacinth Balford, and ten students, including Davy's nephew, Horace V. Freeman (later, CD, an attorney-at-law).