Edinburgh Castle (Jamaica)

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Edinburgh Castle

place Saint Ann Parish
Client Lewis Hutchinson
Construction year around 1770
Coordinates 18 ° 14 '48.1 "  N , 77 ° 12' 7.3"  W Coordinates: 18 ° 14 '48.1 "  N , 77 ° 12' 7.3"  W.
Edinburgh Castle (Jamaica)
Edinburgh Castle
particularities
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

  1. ^ Edinburgh Castle Development Proposal. (PDF, 7.5 MB) Jamaica National Heritage Trust, July 2010, p. 6 , accessed on December 1, 2009 (English).
  2. a b Edinburgh Castle. Jamaica National Heritage Trust, accessed December 1, 2012 .
  3. ^ Edinburgh Castle Development Proposal. Jamaica National Heritage Trust, accessed December 1, 2012 .
  4. ^ Rebecca Tortello: Lewis Hutchinson: The Mad Master. (No longer available online.) Jamaica Gleaner, November 6, 2002, archived from the original on September 5, 2012 .;
  5. ^ UK Directorate of Overseas Surveys, 1: 50,000 Map of Jamaica, Sheet G, 1973.
  6. ^ Traveling Luck for Edinburgh Castle, Saint Thomas, Jamaica. travelingluck.com, accessed December 1, 2012 .