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•The United Fruit Company building: former home
of the company founded by Captain Lorenzo Baker, father of Jamiaca's
banana industry, now the home of the Jamaica Stock Exchange.
•Rockfort: now the site of a flour mill, a power
plant and a cement plant, it also has a mineral spring and baths
with curative waters. The remains of a fort built in 1694 are
still standing.
•Harbour Head: site of the first landing of
an aircraft in Jamaica. ThePan American seaplane was flown by
Charles Lindbergh.
•Norman Manley International Airport: formerly
called Palisadoes airport, Jamaica's first airport is located
on the Palisadoes tombolo.
•Port Royal: once called the wickedest
city in the world, home of the buccaneers and a major trading
port in the seventeenth century, later Britaina's major naval
station in the Caribbean. Still standing are Fort Charles and
the Naval Hospital.
•Passage Fort: now the site
of Jamworld entertainment centre, this was the seaport for the
ancient capital of Spanish Town, and the place where the British
force landed to capture the island in 1655.
•Fort Augusta: one of the British forts, now
a women's prison.
•Green Bay: Rodney Arms Lookout and the
ruins of a residence belonging to Admiral George Rodney, the naval
hero who saved Jamaica from a French invasion.
•Two Sister's Cave: The caves are
estimated to be 200,000 years old and represent the
final stage of a geological process called limestone
cavern collapse. A lone petroglyph (rock carving) represents
a Taino face.
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