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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. Sugar plantations in the Caribbean were worked by enslaved African people [2] until the aboltion of slavery in 1833.
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. The three-bedroom structure was constructed from Fleming's ...
Colour (s) Blue, White. Hampton School is an all-girls boarding school located in Malvern, Jamaica. It is one of the oldest boarding schools in Jamaica, [1] and was founded in 1858, two years after its all boys counterpart Munro College. The school was originally named Fort-Rose, [1] and was constructed from funds received from the Munro and ...
"Trinity Estate, St. Mary's" by James Hakewill, 1820-21. Trinity plantation (centre) on James Robertson's map of 1804 1874 auction sale map of Trinity Estate.. Trinity was a plantation in colonial Jamaica, located south of Port Maria, in Saint Mary Parish, one of several plantations owned by Zachary Bayly that formed part of the area known as Bayly's Vale.
Jamaica ( / dʒəˈmeɪkə / ⓘ jə-MAY-kə; Jamaican Patois: Jumieka [dʒʌˈmie̯ka]) is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At 10,990 square kilometres (4,240 sq mi), it is the third largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola —of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. [ 9] Jamaica lies about 145 km (90 mi) south ...
Kingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island. It faces a natural harbour protected by the Palisadoes, a long sand spit which connects the town of Port Royal and the Norman Manley International Airport to the rest of the island. Kingston is the largest English-speaking city south of the ...
Cockpit Country is an area in Trelawny and Saint Elizabeth, Saint James, Saint Ann, Manchester and the northern tip of Clarendon parishes, mostly within the west-central side, of Jamaica. The land is marked by lush, montane forests and steep-sided valleys and hollows, as deep as 120 metres (390 ft) in places, separated by conical hills and ...
Marlborough Great House, Spur Tree. Four Buildings on the compound of the Northern Caribbean University Campus, Mandeville. Marshall's Pen Great House. Sutton railway station, Jamaica. Williamsfield railway station. Historic sites. Roxborough Castle Plantation – birthplace of National Hero, the Rt. Excellent Norman Manley. Public buildings.