List of plantation great houses in Jamaica
This is a list of plantation great houses in Jamaica.
Rose Hall
Great houses, or plantation houses, were built at a time when sugar cane made Jamaica the wealthiest English colony in the West Indies.[1] Sugar cane was harvested by enslaved peoples.[2]
British contemporary architecture was adapted to the tropics with features such as wide wrap-around verandas, jalousies, and sash windows to accommodate the Caribbean climate.
- Albion, Saint Thomas.[3]
- Edinburgh Castle
- Halse Hall
- Greenwood, St James
- Good Hope, Trelawny
- Potosi
- Roaring River
- Rose Hall, Montego Bay.[4]
- Roxbro Castle
- Temple Hall
- Seville Great House, St. Ann, Jamaica
See also
References
- "Jamaica Great Houses". Great Houses of Jamaica.
- "Sugar Processing". International Slavery Museum.
- https://nljdigital.nlj.gov.jm/items/show/1507#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&xywh=0%2C-78%2C374%2C381
- https://rosehall.com/
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