Looking in on cold spring, Hanover
Nestled in the hills of Eastern Hanover about 17 miles east of Lucea is Cold Spring - the hometown of Jamaican sporting icon, Merlene Ottey. Cold Spring has an almost unblemished record as being violence-free, and with a population of less than...

History of Elgin Town in Hanover
Photo Caption: View Overlooking the Lucea Harbour from the hills.  Elgin Town lies to the right.   The community of Elgin Town in Lucea, Hanover, was originally a fishing and farming village. The community which is approximately...

WATSON TAYLOR PARK, HANOVER’S first public playground
The Watson Taylor Park in Lucea, came into being as a result of the benevolence of an English planter, Arthur Wellesley Watson-Taylorwho gave 7 ½ acres of land to the parish council of Hanover in 1929.Thereafter, Hanover’s first public park was...

Did You Know?- Lucea Clock Tower and Courthouse in Hanover
 Lucea, busy only on market days, retains few vestiges of the elegance of the elegance and importance that it once enjoyed as the capital of a flourishing sugar parish. Hugging the west of the finest natural harbour on the northcoast it is a...

Haughton Court, Blenheim, Kenilworth and other historical places in Hanover
Haughton Court is located in the capital town of Lucea in Hanover.It was previously known as Unity Estate and is named after two brothers, Barbadian immigrants Jonathan and Valentine Haughton who settled in Hanover in 1670. Jonathan died there in...