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▼  May (6)             Half Way Tree, St. Andrew             The Opening of the Jamaica Railway 1845             HON. HUBERT ASHTON LaSEL... Nature, Jamaican Flowers, Jamaica Photos, Jamaica People, Jamaican Heritage, Old Jamaica, Vintage Jamaica, Jamaica Culture, Jamaica History

HALF WAY TREE, ST. ANDREW It derives its name from a cotton tree dating from the Conquest, which existed as late as 1866. Richard Hill, in an article which was published posthumously in the "Victoria Quarterly" in 1890, said: Engraving; AC Collection I visited Halfway Tree on Sunday the 25th November, 1866. When I first saw the cotton tree at the junction of the four roads through the plain of Liguanea from which Halfway Tree receives its name, it had nearly lived out its time. It is of that…

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Photography in Jamaica c.1845-c.1920: the David Boxer Collection. The sixteen sequences in this remarkable book display the changing landscape and the built environments of Jamaica, the principal agricultural industries, and the Jamaican people. In the section titled ‘Picturesque Jamaica’, the ravishing beauty of the island captured by nineteenth century practitioners is abundantly evident in breathtaking […]

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Contributor: Simone Myrie I grew up in deep rural Jamaica. In my district none of the citizens owned a motor vehicle, and so we walked everywhere. At age four I walked almost a mile to basic school on dirt tracks and unpaved roads. Back then we took our own cooked lunches to school. Some students wore shoes while others just went barefoot. There was no sense of inadequacy or inferiority felt by those who were shoe-less, and those who were fortunate enough to wear shoes did not feel as if…

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