Built in 1806 as a wooden jail for runaway slaves, unruly seamen and other vagrants, the “Cage” is now used as a Tourist Information Centre and a small museum. Rose Hall Great House This most famous of Jamaican Great Houses became famous when Haitian, Annie Mary Patterson, married its owner, John Rose Palmer, and came […]
St. James was one of the second group of parishes formed in Jamaica and is said to have been named by Sir Thomas Modyford in about 1655, for the Duke of York (who later became James II) and was the reigning monarch at the time. Located in this parish is “Mellila”, the site of the […]
Positioned on the north-west end of Jamaica, St. James is bounded by Trelawny to the east, St. Elizabeth to the south and Hanover and Westmoreland to the west. Size: 595 sq. km (229.7 sq. miles)