Ellis Caymanas (Q494290)

dred and thirty-five, besides the free children who receive the same attention, as during slavery. The manager, who has introduced task work to a considerable extent, assured us, that the cultivation of the estate was kept up as effectively as at any former period. Complaints are rarely brought before the magistrate. We saw the hospital, in which were twelve slight cases : it was a good building b

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ut very dirty. We passed also through the negro village. As the people were at work, most of the houses were locked; such as we entered were comfortable, clean, and furnished. The village is situated in a grove of cocoa nut trees, which belong to the negros, who are dependent, in part, for their subsistence, on the sale of the fruit in Spanish Town and Kingston markets. On this estate as well as o

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n several others which we have visited, an attempt has been made to establish a school, but without success.'In Higman's <em>Jamaica Surveyed</em> there is an extended discussion on the technological developments which took place at Ellis Caymanas from the middle of the nineteenth century when the property was under the ownership of Charles Augustus Ellis, Baron Howard de Walden, the son of Charle

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s Rose Ellis (Lord Seaford). Prior to emancipation there were three estates called Caymanas - Ellis, Dawkins and Taylor - all located 4 miles east of Spanish Town and north of the main road to Kingston. Ellis Caymanas was the smallest of the three and produced only 120 hogsheads of sugar and 80 puncheons of rum which was less than half the production rate of Taylors Caymanas.

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hasCoordinates

18°1'22.969"N, 76°54'47.372"W

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18°1'25.925"N, 76°54'53.982"W

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Geonames ID

3490577

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