Southfield is a farming town
on the southern ridge of the
Santa Cruz Mountains
The Santa Cruz Mountains, part of the Pacific Coast Ranges, are a mountain range in central and Northern California, United States. They form a ridge down the San Francisco Peninsula, south of San Francisco. They separate the Pacific Ocean from ...
in
St Elizabeth, Jamaica.
[.]
History
Southfield was originally the site of a plantation. This, together with its
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 ...
was well established by 1796 when Andrew Bromfield was listed as the proprietor with 80 African slaves.
By 1922 this had been renamed Southfield Pen.
[ and Village turn into Town]
In 1995, the Great House featured in a program shown on Jamaican National Television.
In 2018, the Village turned into a Town and Southfield Town has 4,370 people live in 1,120 Households.
Amenities
Southfield has two hardware stores, one of which is owned and operated by the Parchment family, a Petcom gas station owned by the Gayle family, many churches including Southfield Seventh-Day Adventist church which was the first Seventh Day Adventist Church in the region. It also has many shops, a supermarket and a pharmacy.
There is also a school, Mayfield All Age School, a public library
[http://www.jamaicateachers.org.jm/about/aboutus_off.asp] and two churches.
Notable residents
*Dr
Robert Trivers
Robert Ludlow "Bob" Trivers (; born February 19, 1943) is an American evolutionary biologist and sociobiologist. Trivers proposed the theories of reciprocal altruism (1971), parental investment (1972), facultative sex ratio determination (1973), a ...
, professor of anthropology and biological sciences at
Rutgers University
Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's ...
.
*Mabel Bent, early 20th century business woman.
References
External links
Aerial view
*Photos
HouseVillage shop
{{Settlements in Jamaica
Populated places in Saint Elizabeth Parish