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PHOTO FLASHBACK: The changing face of St. Catherine

Published:Friday | October 1, 2021 | 7:02 AMA Digital Integration & Marketing production
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FORT AUGUSTA, which is situated between Port Henderson and Passage Fort (on the seaward), was once a military station where all ammunition and other combustible materials used to be deposited by vessels proceeding to Kingston. The fort was planned by Admiral Knowles (afterwards Governor of Jamaica) about 1850 for the protection of Kingston. Today (1962), it is used to house prisoners.
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OLD "TAMARIND TREE" Anglican parish church at Old Harbour Bay was built by the early English settlers on land donated by Colonel Fuller, (who died 1690) three years after the island was captured by the English.
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The 'Old Iron Bridge, in Spanish Town, St. Catherine, was erected in 1801, at a cost of four thousand pounds and is the oldest bridge of its kind in the Western Hemisphere.
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OLD HARBOUR clock tower, a familiar landmark to travellers using the southern arterial road which runs the town.
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St Catherine is probably the fastest-growing parish in Jamaica. Today, it looks very different from what it did centuries earlier. Take a look at scenes from the parish and see for yourself.

Published September 1962

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