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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.
Portmore began as a large area for schematic residential development in the late 1960s, [5] as the West Indies Home Contractors (WIHCON) organization built thousands of prototype housing units in an effort to alleviate the over-population of Kingston; the first was called Independence City. [5]
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.
Tensing Pen Resort is located on the western tip of Jamaica in the town of Negril.It was founded in the early 1970s as a haven and retreat for young couples. In 1975, it was purchased by Karin and Richard Murray.
Goldeneye estate. Goldeneye is the original name of novelist Ian Fleming's estate on Oracabessa Bay on the northern coastline of Jamaica.He bought 15 acres (6.1 ha) adjacent to the Golden Clouds estate in 1946 and built his home on the edge of a cliff overlooking a private beach.
University of the West Indies Chapel, Clock towers. Half Way Tree Clock Tower; Public building. Buxton House, Mico College Campus; UWI Mona Campus; Lighthouses. Plumb Point Lighthouse; Natural sites. Hope Botanical Gardens, Old Hope Road; Rockfort Mineral Bath and Spa, Sir Florizel Glasspole Boulevard
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]
A travel/humor book about the resort, titled "The Naked Truth About Hedonism II: A totally unauthorized naughty, but nice guide to Jamaica's very adult resort" by Chris Santilli, was released in its 3rd edition in December 2019. In the "Dwight's Speech" episode of The Office, Kevin Malone suggests that Jim Halpert go to Hedonism for a vacation.