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Rockfort, [a] located east of Kingston, Jamaica, [1] in an area previously known as Harbour Head, [2] is the ruins of a 17th century rock fort that was once surrounded by a moat. [3] First the site of a British rock fort, [1] it was fortified in 1694 to protect the eastern edge of Kingston against an invasion by the French.
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]
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 ...
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 peoples.
The Statue of Hon. Edward Jordan (SWGP) The Statue of Sir Charles Metcalfe (SWGP) The Statue of Rt. Excellent Alexander Bustamante (SWGP) Forts and naval and military monuments. Fort Charles, Port Royal. Historic sites. Liberty Hall, 76 King Street. Port Royal and the Palisadoes. Public buildings.
Cockpit Country is an area in Trelawny and Saint Elizabeth, Saint James, Saint Ann, Manchester and the northern tip of Clarendon parishes, mostly within the west-central side, of Jamaica. The land is marked by lush, montane forests and steep-sided valleys and hollows, as deep as 120 metres (390 ft) in places, separated by conical hills and ...
Money and land were used as incentives, with time expired Indians offered 10 or 12 acres (49,000 m 2) of Crown land. [ 14 ] The monetary grants were suspended in 1879, with the land grants being halted from 1897 to 1903 and abandoned in 1906 as there was little difference in the costs of repatriating a worker (£15 per person) and offering land ...
Caves in Jamaica. Bad Hole Cave – an impressively large rising cave in the Cockpit Country of Jamaica. This is a limestone Karst region that is very rich in caves. [2] Coffee River Cave – a large river cave in Manchester Parish in west-central Jamaica, it is 2,800 metres (9,200 ft) in length and at an elevation of 250 metres (820 ft).