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
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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
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Cinnamon Hill
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Kensington Estate
*
Old Montpelier
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Roehampton
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Rose Hall
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Running Gut
* Spring Vale Pen
Trelawny
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Bryan Castle
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Green Park Estate, Jamaica (known as Green Pond prior to 1764)
* Good Hope
* Long Pond Estate
* Windsor Estate
Westmoreland
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Blackheath
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Friendship and Greenwich
* George's Plain
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Mesopotamia
* Midgeham
Middlesex County
Clarendon
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Pindar's Valley
*Endeavor
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Whitney
Manchester
Spring Grove
Metcalfe (Now in Saint Mary)
Come See- Coffee Plantation.
Saint Ann
* Antrim
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Legacies of British Slave-ownership. University College London. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
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Cardiff Hall
* Colliston
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* Grier Park][
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Saint Catherine
* Spring Garden
Saint John
(now in Saint Catherine)
* Guanaboa Vale
Saint Mary
* Albion
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Legacies of British Slave-ownership, UCL. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
* Bayly's Vale[Zachary Bayly.]
Legacies of British Slave-ownership, UCL. Retrieved 14 May 2019.
* Brimmer Hall[
* Frontier
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* Trinity[
* ]Tryall
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* Unity]
Saint Thomas in the Vale
(now in Saint Catherine)
* Grays
Vere
(now in Clarendon)
Surrey County
Kingston Parish
Portland
* Golden Vale
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
* Albion
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* Arntully
* Spring Garden
* Swamps
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Saint George
(now divided between Saint Mary and Portland)
* Rodney Hall
* Spring Garden
Saint Thomas (Saint Thomas in the East)
* Holland
* Rhine
Legacies of British Slave-ownership, University College London. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
* Wilson's Gap
See also
* List of plantation great houses in Jamaica
References
External links
* {{Commons category-inline, Plantations in Jamaica
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Agriculture in Jamaica
Slavery in Jamaica