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The Mizpah Church, built in 1866, is a fine example of a Moravian Church building. The Moravian Church, a popular name for The Protestant Episcopal Church of the Unitas Fratrum, or United Brethren, originated in Bohemia in 1457, spreading over time…

Photograph of an Ortanique orange in Mandeville, Manchester. Ortaniques were discovered in the Christiana Market, north of Mandeville, in the early 1900s by a man from Manchester called Swaby. The ortanique is a natural hybrid of sweet orange and…

A view of the Black River in St. Elizabeth, Jamaica

Two black men wearing hats
two black women carrying baskets are standing in front of a wooden framed upstairs house in Bog Walk Village, St. Catherine, Jamaica. Other wooden framed buildings are close to the house.

Four women and a child carrying buckets of water on their heads in Gordon Town, a rural village in Jamaica. Houses and plants are on both sides of the road, stone wall on left side of road.

A herd of cattle grazing on the Goschen Racecourse, St. Elizabeth. On the property are several large trees with a vast mountain in the background.

Image showing waterfalls cascading through mountains, on the way to Newcastle, St. Andrew

Four men are in conversation in the middle of the road in Porus, Manchester. Wooden buildings are on both sides of the road, a horse-drawn carriage is parked along the dirt road.

Workers threshing grain in Clarendon rice field [date unknown]

Photograph of East Indian indentured labourers in rice fields from the Valdez collection, circa 1890 . [Original title on photograph is: Coolies preparing rice - Jamaica]