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Cenotaph erected in the Morant Bay Square on March 1923 and dedicated in memory of those from the parish of St. Thomas who died in the Great War of 1914-1918. Also visible in the square is the Morant Bay Courthouse and Christ Church.

A view of one of the two main entrances to the Castleton Botanical Gardens, one of the oldest public garden in the western hemisphere. Built on land that was once a sugar plantation belonging to Colonel Castle, it became a botanical garden in 1862 to…

A portion of the Wag Water River that runs through the Castleton Gardens property in St. Mary. This river that is usually flowing with water appears mostly dry, as the island was experiencing a period of severe drought at the time this photograph was…

View of the Pinnacle Balm Yard. The structure is made of bamboo and has a thatched roof made of banana leaves. Several signs are on the walls of the structure and there is a Rastafarian flag on the roof.

Ruins of Leonard Howell's great house located at Pinnacle in the hills of St. Catherine. The Rastafarian community at Pinnacle was started by Leonard Howell, "the first rasta" and founder of Rastafarianism.

The building known as Hibbert or Headquarters House on Duke Street, Kingston, which now houses the head office of the Jamaica National Heritage Trust. Headquarters House was built in 1755 by English merchant, Thomas Hibbert.

Gordon House, the official meeting place of the Jamaican Government, located at the intersection of Duke and Beeston Streets in Kingston.

Ornamental bananas, originally brought to Jamaica from Tropical Asia, at the Castleton Gardens in St. Mary, Jamaica.

A heavy duty cane crusher at the Golden Grove Sugar Factory in St. Thomas. The sugar company was started in 1924 and since 2015, Seprod Group of Companies became responsible for sale and distribution of sugar produced at the factory.

The weather instrument used on the Worthy Park Sugar Estate to record and measure sunshine.