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Founded in 1769 as a new port town on Jamaica’s north coast,
Falmouth expanded dramatically in the decades around 1800 as it
supported the rapidly expanding sugar production of Trelawney and
neighboring parishes. Many of the surviving buildings in Falmouth
are the townhouses and shops of the planters and merchants who
benefitted from the wealth of sugar. That same community also built
a major Anglican church and a courthouse, both of which still
survive and remain in use. In those same years, the town hosted a
growing free-black population and this community also left its mark
on the historic town. In 1894, Falmouth received an extraordinary
gift from the British crown in the form of the Albert George
Market, at once a symbol of persistent colonialism, a shelter for
the ancient Sunday markets, and a symbol of modernism in the form
of its vast cast iron design. Monuments in the city from the
twentieth century include an extraordinary round Catholic church
and an impressively Modernist school wing. With little investment
through the twentieth century, the town was entirely
re-conceptualized in the opening years of the twenty-first century
with the construction of a vast cruise ship terminal. Spanning from
the foundation of the town in 1769 to the opening of the cruise
ship terminal in 2008, this book explores the wide range of
architecture built by Jamaicans and others in the making of this
extraordinary town.
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