Drax Hall Estate
Drax Hall Estate (Barbados) was a sugar plantation in Saint George , a place in the interior of Barbados . The first sugar cane was planted there in 1642 .
The mansion is one of only two Jacobean style houses that have survived to this day in Barbados.
The property belonged to the Drax family . The mansion was built by James and William Drax in the 1650s. To this day there is a sugar plantation on the property, which covers most of the eastern parish. However, the house is not open to the public.
William Drax left the property in 1669 and built another Drax Hall Estate in Jamaica .
Individual evidence
- ^ Matthew Parker, The Sugar Barons: Family, Corruption, Empire and War in the West Indies. Cape. 7: The Plantation Life and Death.
- ↑ BW Higman: Jamaica Surveyed: Plantation Maps and Plans of the Eighteens and Nineteenth Centuries . ISBN 978-9766401139 . P. 99.