Seville Great House
Seville Great House
This verifiable park neglecting the ocean, under 1km west of present-day St Ann's, marks the site of the main Spanish capital on the island – Sevilla la Nueva – and one of the principal Spanish settlements in the New World. It houses an entrancing extraordinary house, manor remains and recreations of TaÃno houses, African slave houses and a slave kitchen garden
At the point when the English caught Jamaica from the Spanish, the arrive on which Sevilla la Nueva had been manufactured was allowed to armed force officer Richard Hemming. The domain was created for sugar, and was commanded by the Seville Great House, worked in 1745 by Hemming's grandson. The family tombs are outside, and by them is a commemoration to the slaves whose remaining parts were found on the site and reburied here in 1997.
The reestablished house contains a superb exhibition hall portraying the historical backdrop of the site from TaÃno times through the time of subjugation and the pilgrim time frame.
Seville Great House |
Hints of the first Spanish structures, including a congregation and the mansion place of the main Spanish senator, are unmistakable, alongside the remains of the English sugar plants and the administrator's home. This was additionally the site of the TaÃno town of Maima; the occupants were compelled to fill in as serfs under the Spanish encomienda (constrained work) framework, and immediately ceased to exist through a mix of sickness, exhaust and suicide
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