Edinburgh Castle (Jamaica)
| Edinburgh Castle | ||
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| place | Saint Ann Parish | |
| Client | Lewis Hutchinson | |
| Construction year | around 1770 | |
| Coordinates | 18 ° 14 '48.1 " N , 77 ° 12' 7.3" W | |
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| Named after the Scottish Edinburgh Castle | ||
Edinburgh Castle is a nowadays derelict mansion ( great house ) in St Ann , Jamaica . It was built by Jamaica's first recorded serial killer , Lewis Hutchinson . It had two circular loopholes , diagonally from each other. The ruin is on Jamaica's list of national monuments.
Not far away is a small village with the same name. 18 ° 14 ′ N , 77 ° 13 ′ W.
There is also a small settlement under this name in St Thomas . 17 ° 54 ' N , 76 ° 35' W
Trivia
In the computer game Assassin's Creed III you can enter the building in a side mission.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Edinburgh Castle Development Proposal. (PDF, 7.5 MB) Jamaica National Heritage Trust, July 2010, p. 6 , accessed on December 1, 2009 (English).
- ↑ a b Edinburgh Castle. Jamaica National Heritage Trust, accessed December 1, 2012 .
- ^ Edinburgh Castle Development Proposal. Jamaica National Heritage Trust, accessed December 1, 2012 .
- ^ Rebecca Tortello: Lewis Hutchinson: The Mad Master. (No longer available online.) Jamaica Gleaner, November 6, 2002, archived from the original on September 5, 2012 .
- ^ UK Directorate of Overseas Surveys, 1: 50,000 Map of Jamaica, Sheet G, 1973.
- ^ Traveling Luck for Edinburgh Castle, Saint Thomas, Jamaica. travelingluck.com, accessed December 1, 2012 .