Golden Grove is a

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in the parish of Saint Thomas,

Jamaica Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of His ...

. Historically a sugar plantation, it had a population of 3,057 in 2009.

History

It was established in 1734 as a sugar estate by

Attorney General of Jamaica Attorney General of Jamaica is the chief law officer in Jamaica. Section 79(1) of the Constitution of Jamaica states that "there shall be an Attorney General who shall be the principal legal adviser to the Government of Jamaica" and pursuant to ...

Andrew Arcedeckne Andrew Arcedeckne (8 January 1780 – 8 February 1849) was a British landowner and MP. He was the eldest son of Jamaica plantation owner Chaloner Arcedeckne of Cockfield Hall and Glevering Hall, Suffolk and educated at Eton College and Christ ...

, and was subsequently run by his son

Chaloner Arcedeckne Chaloner Arcedeckne ( – 20 December 1809), MP was an English politician and a Jamaican slave-holder and landowner during British rule. Biography He descended from the Arcedecknes, an Anglo-Irish family who arrived in Suffolk and made it their ...

. In 1775, John Kelly (the supervisor of the plantation) recorded a total yield of 740 hogshead of sugar, more than double that of 1769 (350). However, estate owner Simon Taylor expressly disagreed with Kelly's overworking of the slaves on the plantation, arguing that they would be "killed by overwork and harassed to Death". A

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inscribed with the line "Purchased by the slaves of the Golden Grove" was created in 1830 for church-going slaves in Golden Grove to receive the

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; it is now housed in the Golden Grove Church by the

Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands The Anglican Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands is a diocese of the Church in the Province of the West Indies. It was originally formed as the Diocese of Jamaica, within the Church of England, in 1824. At that time the diocese included the ...

. The Golden Grove Sugar Factory, established in 1924, was the only sugar-manufacturing plant in eastern Jamaica until its closure in July 2019.

Geography

Golden Grove is northeast of Port Morant and east of Bath. The banana-handling port, Port Morant, is located in Bowden, Golden Grove. A path starting from Golden Grove leads to the -tall Morant Point lighthouse cast in London, England in 1841. According to a 2009 census, Golden Grove had a population of 3,057.

Reception

A 2000 travel guide described Golden Grove as "rather shabby", adding that tourists "won't want to stop here".

References

{{Coord, 17.933, N, 76.270, W, display=title Populated places in Jamaica