Bath Botanical Gardens

Bath Botanical Gardens is a botanical garden in Bath in the eastern Jamaican district of Saint Thomas Parish , about 21 km northeast of Morant Bay .

The garden was laid out in 1779 on a resolution of the Jamaica House of Assembly on approximately 0.4 hectares. The first director was Doctor Thomas Clarke of Bath Hospital , near the hot sulfur spring. His successor was the botanist Thomas Dancer.

As a result of regular flooding of the garden by the nearby Plantain Garden River , the plant was largely destroyed in 1862. Due to its historical importance, however, it was maintained and renovated in 2007.

See also

• List of botanical gardens

Web links

• http://www.jamaicatravelandculture.com/destinations/st_thomas/bath/bath-botanical-gardens.htm
• http://www.jnht.com/site_Bath_Botanic_Garden.php

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.wikivoyage.org/de/Morant_Bay#Ausfl.C3.BCge
2. ↑ http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dancer,_Thomas_(DNB00)

Coordinates: 17 ° 56 '50.7 "  N , 76 ° 20' 55.3"  W.