Clarendon Park is a
settlement in
Clarendon Parish in south-central
Jamaica
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.
It is the birthplace of
Sandie Richards, a
track and field
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bronze medal winner at the
2004 Summer Olympics
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The Games saw 10,625 athletes ...
.
History
Clarendon Park was originally a slave plantation, started sometime prior to 1741, which produced sugar, rum and cattle. The number of enslaved residents was 108 by 1809 and would increase slightly to 116 by 1832, the last population count taken before the abolition of slavery in Jamaica in 1838.
Transport
Clarendon Park used to be served by a railway station on the
national railway network.
References
Populated places in Clarendon Parish, Jamaica
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