Falmouth Jamaica
Falmouth Jamaica Falmouth was created in 1970 from seaside land owned by the famous English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s grandfather, Edward Moulton Barrett and was named after Falmouth, Cornwall which was the birthplace of then British governor William Trelawny. It became the capital of the parish of St. James (of which Trelawny was once a part), in the 1790s, thus taking over from the town of Martha Brae in a move sanctioned by the Parish Council (then known as the Vestry). Most of the land was sold to Barrett’s planter friends and donated for the building of a courthouse, church and public gardens. Barrett kept only the waterfront for himself. During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Jamaica was the leading sugar producer of the world. As a result Falmouth flourished as a market center and port for forty years. As it was one of the busiest ports in Jamaica, many people from different cultural, racial and financial backgrounds made home in Falmouth, a wealthy tow...