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Rose Hall is a Jamaican Georgian plantation house now run as a historic house museum. It is located in Montego Bay, Jamaica with a panoramic view of the coast. Thought to be one of the country's most impressive plantation great houses, it had fallen into ruins by the 1960s, but was then restored. The museum showcases the slave history of the ...
Goldeneye estate. Goldeneye is the original name of novelist Ian Fleming's estate on Oracabessa Bay on the northern coastline of Jamaica.He bought 15 acres (6.1 ha) adjacent to the Golden Clouds estate in 1946 and built his home on the edge of a cliff overlooking a private beach.
This is a list of plantation great houses in Jamaica.These houses were built in the 18th and 19th centuries when sugar cane made Jamaica the wealthiest colony in the West Indies. Sugar plantations in the Caribbean were worked by enslaved African people [2] until the aboltion of slavery in 1833.
Cinnamon Hill is a great house and sugar plantation associated with the Cornwall plantation located in St James Parish, Jamaica. It is close to Rose Hall and overlooks the sea. [1] The House was started by Samuel Barrett junior (d. 1760), who had bought the Cornwall Estate. However he died and the work was continued by his son Edward Barrett ...
Green Park Great House was purchased by Ray Fremmer, an American WW2 veteran, an eccentric amateur historian and archaeologist originally from Boston, who moved to Jamaica before 1960. Fremmer was the author of the 1963 book, Jamaica's heroes and patriots, and led the 1965 excavation of the heroes of the Morant Bay rebellion.
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 labour on plantations and for consumption. Both industries used the forced labour of enslaved ...
Firefly Estate. / 18.393135; -76.897237. The Firefly Estate, located 10 km (6 mi) east of Oracabessa, Jamaica, was the Caribbean home of Sir Noël Coward and is the site of his grave. It is now listed as a National Heritage Site by the Jamaica National Heritage Trust. [1] Although the setting is idylic, the house, built in 1956, [2] is ...
Brimmer Hall as shown on James Robertson 's map of 1804. Brimmer Hall is a Jamaican Great House and 642 acre plantation [2] located near Port Maria, in Saint Mary Parish, Jamaica. In the eighteenth century Brimmer Hall was owned by Zachary Bayly as part of a series of contiguous sugar plantations. These consisted of Trinity, Tryall, and Roslyn ...