This is a list of plantations and pens in Jamaica by county and

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including historic parishes that have since been merged with modern ones. Plantations produced crops, such as

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and coffee, while livestock

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produced animals for labour on plantations and for consumption. Both industries used the forced labour of enslaved peoples. James Robertson's map of Jamaica, published in 1804 based on a survey of 1796–99, identified 814 sugar plantations and around 2,500 pens or non-sugar plantations.

Cornwall County

Hanover

* Axe and Adze * Bachelor's Hall * Betsy Mount * Caldwell * Chester Castle * Comfort Hall * Cousins Cove * Cottage * Haughton Court * Haughton Grove * Haughton Hall * Haughton Tower * Hopewell (Bucknor's) * Prospect * Knockalva * Retirement * Rock Springs * Salt Spring * Saxham * Tryall

Saint Elizabeth

* Appleton * Chocolate Hole * Mount Charles

Saint James

* Cinnamon Hill *

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* Old Montpelier *

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* Rose Hall * Running Gut * Spring Vale Pen

Trelawny

* Bryan Castle *

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(known as Green Pond prior to 1764) * Good Hope * Long Pond Estate * Windsor Estate

Westmoreland

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* Friendship and Greenwich * George's Plain *

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* Midgeham

Middlesex County

Clarendon

* Pindar's Valley *Endeavor *

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Manchester

Spring Grove

Metcalfe (Now in Saint Mary)

Come See- Coffee Plantation.

Saint Ann

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* Colliston * Egypt * Grier Park * Minard

Saint Catherine

* Spring Garden

Saint John

(now in Saint Catherine) * Guanaboa Vale

Saint Mary

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Legacies of British Slave-ownership, UCL. Retrieved 24 May 2019. * Bayly's ValeZachary Bayly.
Legacies of British Slave-ownership, UCL. Retrieved 14 May 2019. * Brimmer Hall *

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Saint Thomas in the Vale

(now in Saint Catherine) * Grays

Vere

(now in Clarendon)

Surrey County

Kingston Parish

Portland

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Port Royal

(now divided between Kingston and Saint Andrew) * Mavis Bank

Saint Andrew

* Constant Spring *Hampstead Park * Hope Estate * Middleton

Saint David

(Now in Saint Thomas) * Abbey Green * Aeolus Valley Estate *

* Arntully * Spring Garden *

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Saint George

(now divided between Saint Mary and Portland) * Rodney Hall * Spring Garden

Saint Thomas (Saint Thomas in the East)

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* Richmond Vale * WilliamsfieldWilliamsfield Estate.
Legacies of British Slave-ownership, University College London. Retrieved 15 May 2019. * Wilson's Gap

References

External links

* {{Commons category-inline, Plantations in Jamaica * Agriculture in Jamaica Slavery in Jamaica