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List Of Plantation Great Houses In Jamaica
This is a list of plantation great houses in Jamaica. Great houses, or plantation houses, were built at a time when sugar cane made Jamaica the wealthiest English colony in the West Indies. Sugar cane was harvested by enslaved peoples. British contemporary architecture was adapted to the tropics with features such as wide wrap-around verandas, jalousies, and sash windows to accommodate the Caribbean climate. * Albion, Saint Thomas. * Edinburgh Castle * Halse Hall * Good Hope, Trelawny * Greenwood, St James * Green Park * Potosi * Roaring River * Rose Hall, Montego Bay.https://rosehall.com/ * Roxbro Castle * Temple Hall * Seville Great House, St. Ann, Jamaica See also * List of plantations 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 ... References {{Plan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rose Hall Jamaica Photo D Ramey Logan
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Albion Plantation
Albion was a sugar plantation in Saint David Parish, Jamaica. Created during or before the 18th century, it had at least 451 slaves when slavery was abolished in the British Empire in 1833. By the end of the 19th-century it was the most productive plantation in Jamaica due to the advanced refining technology it used. By the early 20th century, however, its cane sugar could not compete with cheaper European beet sugar, and it produced its last sugar crop in 1928. It subsequently became a banana farm for the United Fruit Company. Albion gave its name to Albion Cane, Albion Sugar and the settlement of Albion Estate. Location Albion was about 16 miles east of Kingston in Saint David Parish, now Saint Thomas Parish, on the south coast of Jamaica. It was irrigated by the Yallahs River in the east and had its own port facilities at Cow Bay. The road from Kingston to Windward ran through the southern part of the plantation. History Among the earliest owners of Albion plantation we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edinburgh Castle, Jamaica
Edinburgh Castle, an estate and now ruined great house in St Ann, was built by Jamaica's earliest recorded serial killer, Lewis Hutchinson. It had two circular, loopholed towers diagonally at opposite corners. The ruins are on the list of National Heritage Sites in Jamaica. There is a small nearby village of the same name at . There is also a small settlement of this name in St Thomas at . In popular media *In ''Assassin's Creed III'', the decaying abandoned Edinburgh Castle can be explored by the game's fictional protagonist Connor Kenway, in search for one of the pieces of Captain Kidd's treasure map which ended up in Lewis Hutchinson's private collection after he supposedly killed Joseph Palmer only for it to be stolen by another of Hutchinson's victims. See also *Jamaica National Heritage Trust *List of Plantation Great Houses in Jamaica This is a list of plantation great houses in Jamaica. Great houses, or plantation houses, were built at a time when sugar cane m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halse Hall
Halse Hall is a plantation great house in Clarendon, Jamaica. During the Spanish occupation of Jamaica the estate was known as "Hato de Buena Vista". In 1655, following the English capture of Jamaica the site was given to Major Thomas Halse who came from Barbados with Penn and Venables. Here he raised hogs, grazed cattle and built Halse Hall. The house had thick walls and served as the centre of the estate and a rallying point for defence. At the time of Thomas Halse death in 1702, the Great House was just a single-storey building. By the late 1740s the building was owned by his son, Francis Saddler Halse, who developed the property into a more imposing and beautiful two-storey structure. A new entrance was erected, accessed by an elaborate arrangement of stone steps flanked by columns and capped with a fanlight. A peaked portico was added later. The Halse Hall Burial-Ground contains a tomb of the Halse family— Major Thomas Halse (d. 1702) and Thomas Halse (d. 1727). The pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Good Hope, Trelawny
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Green Park Estate, Jamaica
Green Park Estate was one of several sugar plantations owned by William Atherton and his heirs. It was located in Trelawny Parish, south of Falmouth, Jamaica. By the early nineteenth century, at least 533 people were enslaved there producing mainly sugar and rum. History Green Park Estate was one of the largest and oldest sugar plantations in Trelawny parish, dating back to 1655, with the Invasion of Jamaica by the English, when Oliver Cromwell first granted land to James Bradshaw, the son of John Bradshaw, one of the regicides who signed the death warrant of King Charles I. Adjoining lands were granted to the Barrett family by King Charles II in 1660. Among the earliest owners was George Sinclair of Saint Ann Parish who acquired the estate around 1740. In the 1760s Thomas Southworth, a merchant from Kingston in partnership with John Kennion, a kinsman of Edward Kennion, changed the name of the estate from Green Pond to Green Park, and started to transform it from being a cat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Potosi, Trelawny, Jamaica
Potosi is a former sugar estate in Trelawny, Jamaica. It was named after a fabled Bolivian silver mine. History The estate originally belonged to Thomas Partridge of St. James. His son, also named Thomas, inherited the property and, upon the son's death, ownership passed to his two sisters, including Elizabeth. Elizabeth married John Tharp in 1766 and on December 31, 1766, Articles of Agreement were signed "granting to John Tharp, husband of Elizabeth joint devisee with her sister under the Will of Thomas Partridge her brother to Potosi and Flamstead Estates, management of same until said devisees are both of age". This was the beginning of Tharp's collection of properties on the Martha Brae River. John Tharp died in 1804, and the estate was inherited by John Tharp the younger. In April 1836 there were 224 enslaved Africans on the estate, and John Tharp received £4,494 17s 8d compensation when they were emancipated. The ruins of the Works now belong to the Muschett family ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roaring River Park
Roaring River Park is a heritage and nature park near Petersfield, Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica. The park is on the site of the Roaring River Estate which belonged to the Beckford family: Peter Beckford, William Beckford. The Roaring River runs underground, before appearing near to Petersfield, close to the Roaring River Cave, a series of limestone caverns with a small mineral spring inside. The Roaring River Citizens Association, a local community group, looks after the caves and provides guided tours for visitors. There is also a fresh water sinkhole where visitors can swim and a landscaped private garden where visitors are welcome for a contribution. The river provides the parish capital, Savanna-la-Mar Savanna-la-Mar (commonly known as Sav-la-Mar, or simply Sav) is the chief town and capital of Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica. A coastal town, it contains an 18th-century fort constructed for colonial defence against pirates in the Caribbean. H ..., with its water supp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rose Hall, Montego Bay
Rose Hall is a Jamaican Georgian plantation house now run as a historic house museum. It is located in Montego Bay, Jamaica with a panoramic view of the coast. Thought to be one of the country's most impressive plantation great houses, it had fallen into ruins by the 1960s, but was then restored. The museum showcases the slave history of the estate and the legend of the White Witch of Rose Hall. Description Rose Hall is widely regarded to be a visually impressive house and the most famous in Jamaica. It is a mansion in Jamaican Georgian style with a stone base and a plastered upper storey, high on the hillside, with a panorama view over the coast. The architect James Hakewill visited the building and wrote: Rose Hall was restored in the 1960s to its former splendor, with mahogany floors, interior windows and doorways, paneling and wooden ceilings. It is decorated with silk wallpaper printed with palms and birds, ornamented with chandeliers and furnished with mostly Eur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roxborough, Manchester
Roxborough is a former estate and now a small community south of Mandeville in Manchester, Jamaica. It was the birthplace of Jamaican National Hero and politician Norman Washington Manley. History of the estate and great house The estate was originally called "Roxbro Castle". Over the years the great house became derelict until, despite renovation proposals, it was destroyed by fire in 1968. there are again proposals from the Jamaica National Heritage Trust to restore the building. Economy The main economic activity is small-scale agriculture in which the principle crops are corn, bananas, sugarcane, ackee and marijuana. Notable people Notable people from Roxborough include: * Norman Washington Manley Norman Washington Manley (4 July 1893 – 2 September 1969) was a Jamaican statesman who served as the first and only Premier of Jamaica. A Rhodes Scholar, Manley became one of Jamaica's leading lawyers in the 1920s. Manley was an advocate ... ( Jamaican National ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Temple Hall, Jamaica
Temple Hall is a predominantly residential community in northern St Andrew, Jamaica. It is named after the estate and great house which it adjoins. It is bounded to the east by the Wag Water River and is essentially a linear settlement strung out along a short section of the A3 road at an elevation of about .Reference: UK Directorate of Overseas Surveys 1:50,000 map of Jamaica sheet L, 1967. To the east of the river is a ridge and triangulation station which overlooks the settlement and is also called Temple Hall. History of the estate First owned by Thomas Temple, Temple Hall estate was at first a sugar estate but later became an experimental area for many crops. It is where Sir Nicholas Lawes (1652-1731) introduced the cultivation of coffee to the island in 1728. Lawes was governor of Jamaica from 1718–22 and married Temple's daughter, Susannah, in 1698 being given the estate as a dowry. Laws also experimented with the growing of tobacco, and set up the first printing press ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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