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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.
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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
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, Saint Thomas.
* Edinburgh Castle
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* 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 ...
* Good Hope, Trelawny
* Greenwood, St James
* Green Park
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* 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 ...
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