Edinburgh Castle, an estate and now ruined
great house
A great house is a large house or mansion with luxurious appointments and great retinues of indoor and outdoor staff. The term is used mainly historically, especially of properties at the turn of the 20th century, i.e., the late Victorian or ...
in
St Ann, was built by Jamaica's earliest recorded serial killer,
Lewis Hutchinson
Lewis Hutchinson (1733–1773), a Scottish immigrant to Jamaica, was the first recorded serial killer in Jamaica's history and one of its most prolific. Early life
Hutchinson, better known as the Mad Master and Mad Doctor of Edinburgh Castle, ...
.
It had two circular, loopholed towers diagonally at opposite corners.
The ruins are on the
list of National Heritage Sites in Jamaica
This is a complete list of National Heritage sites in Jamaica as published by the Jamaica National Heritage Trust.
Reference Map of Jamaica
Clarendon
;Buildings of architectural and historic interest
*Halse Hall Great House
;Churches, cemet ...
.
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
''Assassin's Creed III'' is a 2012 action-adventure video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii U, and Microsoft Windows. It is the fifth major installment in the ''Assassin's Creed'' serie ...
'', the decaying abandoned Edinburgh Castle can be explored by the game's fictional protagonist
Connor Kenway Connor may refer to the following:
People
* Connor (given name), list of people with this name
* Connor (surname)
* Harriet Connor Brown (1872-1962), American writer and women's rights activist
Places and jurisdictions
* Connor, County Antri ...
, in search for one of the pieces of
Captain Kidd
William Kidd, also known as Captain William Kidd or simply Captain Kidd ( – 23 May 1701), was a Scottish sea captain who was commissioned as a privateer and had experience as a pirate. He was tried and executed in London in 1701 for murder a ...
's treasure map which ended up in
Lewis Hutchinson
Lewis Hutchinson (1733–1773), a Scottish immigrant to Jamaica, was the first recorded serial killer in Jamaica's history and one of its most prolific. Early life
Hutchinson, better known as the Mad Master and Mad Doctor of Edinburgh Castle, ...
'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
The Jamaica National Heritage Trust is responsible for the promotion, preservation, and development of Jamaica's material cultural heritage (buildings, monuments, bridges, etc.).
The organisation maintains the list of National Heritage Sites in J ...
*
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 ...
References
External links
Aerial view
Great Houses in Jamaica
National Heritage Sites of Jamaica
Ruins in Jamaica
Buildings and structures in Saint Ann Parish
Plantations in Jamaica
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