THE FIST ENCOUNTER

SEVIELLE HERITAGE PARK

Presented By: Brittany Hanson, Arissa Green, Samantha Johnson, Tishawna Hutchinson & Alexandria Grant

SEVEILLE HERITAGE PARK

A visit to the Seville Great House and Heritage Park on Jamaicas North Coast will take you on a journey through the centuries back to the very beginnings of the islands history and culture. It was here that the Tainos, Jamaicas first inhabitants, established their largest town.

It is said that the Arawak-speaking Amerindians had discovered the island - Xaymaca - some 1500 years ago.

Seville Heritage Park

Seville is the site of the town of Maima which was established by Tainos.

The first inhabitants of Jamaica. Here as well as at other settlements across the island.

The Tainos fashioned their canoes, built their houses, fished in the rivers and the blue Caribbean Sea while leading their peaceful lives.

An exhibition of artifacts at Seville will help you to understand how these first Jamaicans lived

The First Settlers

On the evening of May 5, 1494, Christopher Columbus, the Spanish Explorer, landed at Seville and became the first European to tread upon Jamaican soil.

He lived here for over a year after he was shipwrecked.

In 1509 the Spaniards under Esquivel began building Sevilla la Neuva in the middle of the village of Maima. They subsequently abandoned it in 1534.

The First Encounter

It was at Seville that the cultures of three worlds – (Amerindian, Africa and European) had their first encounter and, through good times and bad, gave birth to modern Jamaica.

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The Arrival of The British

In 1655 the

British came,

capturing the

island from the

Spanish.

Building on the

remains of

Sevilla, they

established a

sugar plantation

they called—as

we still do today

—Seville.

Seville Great house is symbolic of the English period. After the capture of the island in 1655, New Seville was abandoned by the Spaniards.

The house originally consisted of two storeys. The top storey was, however, blown off by hurricane, about 1898, and it was never replaced.

There is veranda, enclosed by a set of square wooden columns, along the entire northern end of the building. It was designed to provide adequate ventilation and sunlight, as well as privacy.

Sevielle Great House

There is a projected entrance portico, which forms the landing for bifurcated cut stone steps.

The Great House is positioned in a way to enable slave masters to have a clear view of the entire plantation.

Sevielle Great House Con'td

At Seville

there are

replicas of

African and

Taino

houses, as

seen in the

picture, a

African home

Seville Heritage Park

A visit to Seville Heritage Park on Jamaica's north coast will take you on a journey through centuries, to the very beginning of the island's history and culture. 

Seville is known for its beauty and historical authenticity. There you will find evidence of Jamaica's rich culture revealed in artefacts from our Taino, Spanish, British, and African ancestry.

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