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"This ruin at 4a Somerset Avenue, Kingston 16, recently housed a dry-cleaning establishment, a tailor shop and a four bedroom house. But all was totally destroyed by fire on Monday. The ex-occupants of the house reported that at about 3:30 a.m. on…

A thoroughly wrecked brick building next to a dispensary.

A view of the City of Kingston taken from the sea after the earthquake and fire in 1907

The remains of a sugar mill east of Port Antonio, Portland. A woman - possibly a homeless person - occupies the entrance, back turned.

Photograph of the ruins of the old stone kitchen found on the Liberty Hill Great House property in St. Ann.

Destruction to the Brigade Office and other sections of the military camp site.

Ruined military buildings after the 1907 earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica.

Ruins of the 17th century Colbeck Castle in Jamaica.

"The impressive ruins of Colbeck Castle, two miles from Old Harbour, stands as one of the most elaborate memorials of Jamaica's past. This castle, with dungeons, slave quarters and the bedroom, large halls and ballrooms, typical of wealthy plantation…