Falmouth is located in Trelawny, Jamaica (Caribbean). Additionally, Falmouth is the chief town and capital of the parish of Trelawny.
⭐ Points of Interest:
00:41 Port of Falmouth (Falmouth Pier)
03:19 Market Street
03:19 To Martha Brae
⭐ History
Founded by Thomas Reid in 1769. It was a market centre and a fort for over forty years when Jamaica was the world's leading sugar producer.
The town was named after Falmouth, Cornwall in the United Kingdom, the birthplace of Sir William Trelawny.
Noteably, Martha Brae Village, not Falmouth, was the first capital of Trelawny.
Falmouth was built in accordance with the gridiron plan.
In other words, the town was divided into square and rectangular blocks, separated by vertical and horizontal streets, similar to a chessboard, then subdivided into lots which were sold.
The lots in Falmouth were sold to wealthy planters and merchants, and John Tharp was one such planter.
Tharp was also Custos of Trelawny, until 1795, when a series of personal tragedies and ill health forced him to resign.
Tharp owned a number of estates in Trelawny and he assisted Moulton Barrett and his brother Samuel with selling the lots in Falmouth.
He built two houses and a wharf in Falmouth, and one house is currently the Office of the Collector of Tax.
Trelawny after 1790 was one of prosperity. In 1794, Moulton Barrett donated 7,800 square feet of land along the intersection of Duke Street and Pitt Street for the construction of an Anglican church, the St. Peters Anglican Church.
In 1794, Bryan Edwards had recorded his astonishment at the rapid development of the town.
Twenty-three years before that, Falmouth contained less than 20 houses and cleared about 10 ships annually.
By 1794, the number of houses reached 220 and the number of ships cleared reached 30.
Falmouth developed in the days when sugar was king and it has much of the charm of the Eighteenth Century in its Court House, in its wrought iron balconies, its colonnades and overhanging storeys.
During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Falmouth was one of the busiest ports in Jamaica.
It was home to masons, carpenters, tavern-keepers, mariners, planters and others.
It was a wealthy town in a wealthy parish with a rich racial mix.
Jamaica, during this period, had become the world's top exporter of sugar.
This made Falmouth a central hub of the slave trade and the now notorious cross-Atlantic triangular trade.
Many slave ships arrived at this port, full of West African slaves who were auctioned off to local plantation owners
Falmouth was operating as a free port in the early 1800's.
Steamboats began to arrive in Jamaica in the 1830's, and it signaled the end of Falmouth as a major port town.
These bulky vessels needed deeper waters to dock, and Falmouth Harbour was not deep enough.
Several attempts were made to deepen the harbour, but Falmouth never regained its former glory.
On March 22nd, 2011 Jamaica had the grand opening of the Historic Falmouth Cruise Port (HFCP).
Since the recent modernization of its harbour, Falmouth can welcome some of the largest passenger ships and has experienced a sort of “re-birth” as more visitors than ever arrive to discover the treasures this lovely town has to offer.
LOCATION:
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⭐ Points of Interest:
00:41 Port of Falmouth (Falmouth Pier)
03:19 Market Street
03:19 To Martha Brae
⭐ History
Founded by Thomas Reid in 1769. It was a market centre and a fort for over forty years when Jamaica was the world's leading sugar producer.
The town was named after Falmouth, Cornwall in the United Kingdom, the birthplace of Sir William Trelawny.
Noteably, Martha Brae Village, not Falmouth, was the first capital of Trelawny.
Falmouth was built in accordance with the gridiron plan.
In other words, the town was divided into square and rectangular blocks, separated by vertical and horizontal streets, similar to a chessboard, then subdivided into lots which were sold.
The lots in Falmouth were sold to wealthy planters and merchants, and John Tharp was one such planter.
Tharp was also Custos of Trelawny, until 1795, when a series of personal tragedies and ill health forced him to resign.
Tharp owned a number of estates in Trelawny and he assisted Moulton Barrett and his brother Samuel with selling the lots in Falmouth.
He built two houses and a wharf in Falmouth, and one house is currently the Office of the Collector of Tax.
Trelawny after 1790 was one of prosperity. In 1794, Moulton Barrett donated 7,800 square feet of land along the intersection of Duke Street and Pitt Street for the construction of an Anglican church, the St. Peters Anglican Church.
In 1794, Bryan Edwards had recorded his astonishment at the rapid development of the town.
Twenty-three years before that, Falmouth contained less than 20 houses and cleared about 10 ships annually.
By 1794, the number of houses reached 220 and the number of ships cleared reached 30.
Falmouth developed in the days when sugar was king and it has much of the charm of the Eighteenth Century in its Court House, in its wrought iron balconies, its colonnades and overhanging storeys.
During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Falmouth was one of the busiest ports in Jamaica.
It was home to masons, carpenters, tavern-keepers, mariners, planters and others.
It was a wealthy town in a wealthy parish with a rich racial mix.
Jamaica, during this period, had become the world's top exporter of sugar.
This made Falmouth a central hub of the slave trade and the now notorious cross-Atlantic triangular trade.
Many slave ships arrived at this port, full of West African slaves who were auctioned off to local plantation owners
Falmouth was operating as a free port in the early 1800's.
Steamboats began to arrive in Jamaica in the 1830's, and it signaled the end of Falmouth as a major port town.
These bulky vessels needed deeper waters to dock, and Falmouth Harbour was not deep enough.
Several attempts were made to deepen the harbour, but Falmouth never regained its former glory.
On March 22nd, 2011 Jamaica had the grand opening of the Historic Falmouth Cruise Port (HFCP).
Since the recent modernization of its harbour, Falmouth can welcome some of the largest passenger ships and has experienced a sort of “re-birth” as more visitors than ever arrive to discover the treasures this lovely town has to offer.
LOCATION:
Find this place on Google Maps.
➤ http://bit.ly/2oNN1Ib
#InJamaica #Jamaica #Falmouth #Trelawny #TrelawnyJamaica #FalmouthPort #Pier #CruisePort #FalmouthJamaica