A couple of nice easy walks at 2 restored plantation houses, Rose Hall
and Greenwood.
Both are just east of Montego Bay on the main road
to Ocho Rios. Signs clearly point to the turnoffs leading to them.
In the 1700s, Rose Hall may have been the finest great
house in the entire West Indies. Rose Hall boasts one of Jamaica's best
legends, about its second mistress named Annie Palmer
who murdered 3 husbands, and a plantation overseer. Open 9:30-6.
Domestic conditions were less volatile at the lesser known Greenwood
Great House, actually a better look at what life was like on one of
the old sugar plantations.
A highlight of the tour is the rare book library with
copies dating back to 1697. Open 9-6.
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