Definitive issue. Local motifs

    Jamaica  1984.08.01

    In issue: Stamp(s): 3   

    Printing: multicoloral offset

    Issued in: sheets of 25 (5*5) stamps

  • Number by catalogue:  Gibbons: 464a  

    Perforation type: 13 ½x13 ½

    Subject:

    5 cents.

    Old waterwheel - Tryall, Hanover*

    Additional:

    *Hanover is a parish located on the northwestern tip of the island of Jamaica. It is a part of the county of Cornwall, bordered by St. James in the east and Westmoreland in the south. With the exception of Kingston, it is the smallest parish on the island. Hanover is the birth parish of Alexander Bustamante, labour leader, first head of government of Jamaica under universal suffrage, and one of seven Jamaican National Heroes. Its capital is Lucea.

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    Roughly 10 miles west of Montego Bay, in Jamaica’s Hanover Parish, stands the enormous Tryall Water Wheel.

    Originally constructed around 200 years ago, the 30-foot-diameter cast iron wheel was used to grind sugar cane produced on the Tryall Estate.

    The wheel was damaged during the slave rebellion in the 1830s. However, thanks to subsequent renovations, it is today the last working water wheel in Jamaica.

    Tryall Water Wheel is powered by water carried by aqueduct from the Flint River, roughly 2 miles distant.

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    This information has been taken from Jaspa's Live Journal