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Rockfort (Jamaica) Coordinates: 17°57′58.41″N 76°44′6.6″W. Ink drawing by William Berryman titled "On the Rockfort Road" from 1808. Port Royal and Kingston Harbours (map of 1774). Rockfort is located on the northeastern portion of Kingston Harbour. Rockfort, [a] located east of Kingston, Jamaica, [1] in an area previously known as ...
Milk River Bath. : 17.8538671°N 77.3523653°W. Milk River Bath. Milk River Bath is mineral spa in the South West corner of Clarendon Parish, Jamaica. Owned by the Government of Jamaica since its opening in 1794, it now has about 6 public baths and a hotel with about 20 bedrooms. It claims that its warm waters are more radioactive than some ...
Rockfort (Kingston, Jamaica) / 17.9751694°N 76.758250°W / 17.9751694; -76.758250. Rockfort is a community in Kingston, Jamaica that is bounded by Long Mountain range to the north, the sea and Springfield Gardens to the south, Mountain View and Rollington Town to the west, and Harbour View to the east. [1]
Rockland County is the second-southernmost county on the west side of the Hudson River in the U.S. state of New York, after Richmond County. It is part of the New York metropolitan area. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the county's population is 338,329, [ 4] making it the state's third-most densely populated county outside New York City after ...
Jamaica Avenue was an ancient trail for tribes from as far away as the Ohio River and the Great Lakes, coming to trade skins and furs for wampum. [15] It was in 1655 that the first settlers paid the Native Americans with two guns, a coat, and some powder and lead, for the land lying between the old trail and "Beaver Pond" (now filled in; what is now Tuckerton Street north of Liberty Avenue ...
Mineral spa. Spa Luhačovice in Czech Republic (hotel built by Dušan Jurkovič) Mineral spas are spa resorts developed around naturally occurring mineral springs. Like seaside resorts, they are mainly used recreationally although they also figured prominently in prescientific medicine .
The Rockaway Peninsula, commonly referred to as The Rockaways or Rockaway, is a peninsula at the southern edge of the New York City borough of Queens on Long Island, New York. Relatively isolated from Manhattan and other more urban parts of the city, Rockaway became a popular summer retreat in the 1830s. It has since become a mixture of lower ...
The five boroughs of New York City. New York City is located on the coast of the Northeastern United States at the mouth of the Hudson River in southeastern New York state. It is located in the New York–New Jersey Harbor Estuary, the centerpiece of which is the New York Harbor, whose deep waters and sheltered bays helped the city grow in significance as a trading city.