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Rose Hall Great House
FOLLOWMontego Bay, St. James
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OVERVIEW
Built in the 1770s for John Palmer, Rose Hall was the centre of a sugar estate worked by hundreds of enslaved people. Abandoned after the 1831 Baptist War, it was restored in the 1960s and is now one of Jamaica's most visited historic houses.
HISTORY
The legend attaches to Annie Palmer, said to have murdered three husbands and many enslaved people before being killed herself. Historians have found no contemporary evidence for the story, which appears to derive largely from Herbert de Lisser's 1929 novel The White Witch of Rosehall and earlier oral tradition.
REPORTED ACTIVITY
Night tours are built around the Annie Palmer legend, and visitors regularly report cold spots, apparitions and photographic anomalies. The legend is well documented; the woman it describes largely is not.
VISITING
Open daily, with candlelit night tours. The real history of the estate's enslaved workforce is the more substantial story.
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