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Photo Flashback: Monuments of Old St. Elizabeth, July 31, 1962

Published:Thursday | August 25, 2022 | 10:17 PM
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THIS IMPOSING EXAMPLE of Colonial Architecture is the Black River courthouse.
CALM AT ITS MOUTH, the Black River, Jamaica's largest, is spanned by this aluminium bridge. Gorge tumbling in its upper reaches, the river sluggishly creeps down to its mouth at the town, from where small lighters can navigate the 44-mile-long river for nearly 30 miles to transport goods to and from the interior.
DRIFTWOOD AND A QUIET BEACH provide a fitting setting for the Black River Hospital, which serves the parish.
SYMBOL OF THE TIMES: The flag of Jamaica proudly flies in front of the Black River Post Office.
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The parish of St. Elizabeth, named after the wife of a former Governor, Sir Thomas Modyford, is full of monuments and legends.  The chisel of history has carved monumental buildings in the courthouse and the Anglican church at Black River.  The continuity of history is maintained in a building which once housed the army and is now the police station. Even crumbling tombs shielding the bones of men reputed to have died in a duel conjure up the essence of another, more romantic era.