Rose Hall Great House - Bay Things To Do

  • Address: Montego Bay
  • Phone: 876 / 953-2323
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Rose Hall Great House
Montego Bay

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  • The legendary Rose Hall is the most famous great house on Jamaica, and the legends associated with it are so riveting and spellbinding that we urge you to visit, even at the expense of a day at the beach. The subject of at least a dozen Gothic novels, it was immortalized in the H. G. deLisser book, White Witch of Rose Hall. The house was begun in 1750 by George Ash, an English planter, and completed in 1780 by John Palmer, a wealthy British planter. At its peak, this was a 2,640-hectare (6,600-acre) plantation, with more than 2,000 slaves. At the time, it was considerably larger than what you'll see today, thanks to two additional wings, connected to the main house at the time by open breezeways, which were never rebuilt. Many of the macabre legends associated with the place derived from Annie Palmer, wife of the builder's grandnephew, John Rose Palmer, who ... more on frommers.com

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