Ewarton
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| Coordinates | 18 ° 11 ′ N , 77 ° 5 ′ W | ||
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| Country | Jamaica | ||
| county | Middlesex | ||
| Saint Catherine | |||
| ISO 3166-2 | JM-14 | ||
| height | 245 m | ||
| Residents | 14.096 (2010) | ||
Ewarton is a small town in inland Jamaica . The city is located in County Middlesex in the Parish Saint Catherine . In 2010, Ewarton had a population of 14,096 people. The origin of the name Ewarton is uncertain. Most likely a connection between the family name Ewart and the Creole word Ton ( Town = city ).
Churches
Ewarton has churches of ten different Christian denominations: the Seventh-day Adventists , the Anglican Church , the Baptists , the Church of Christ , the Church of God of Prophecy , the Gospel Hall , the Gospel Lighthouse , the King Chapel , the Methodists and the Roman Catholic Church (St. Catherine of Siena).
economy
The city's largest employer is the ALCAN Bauxite-Alumina Plant . The company owns one of the largest bauxite opencast mines in Jamaica east of the city . In Ewarton there are three large supermarkets, two petrol stations and a bakery, but there is only one public telephone in the entire village. Ewarton does not have a branch of the St. Catherine Parish Library , but a book bus visits the town on a regular basis.
From 1885 to 1947 there was a direct rail link from Ewarton to Spanish Town . The station was closed in 1947 due to a lack of profitability.
sons and daughters of the town
- Greg Meghoo , Jamaican sprinter, silver medalist at the 1984 Olympics
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives:
- ↑ a b c d Ewarton brief description
- ↑ BW Higamn, Hudson, BJ: 8 . In: Jamaican Place Names , 1st. Edition, University of the West Indies Press , Kingston 2009, ISBN 978-976-640-217-4 , p. 204.
- ↑ Veront M Satchell, Sampson, Cezley: The rise and fall of railways in Jamaica, 1845-1975 Archived from the original on July 28, 2011. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Manchester University Press (Ed.): The Journal of Transport History . 24, No. 1, Manchester , England , March 2003, p. 5.
- ↑ Veront M Satchell, Sampson, Cezley: The rise and fall of railways in Jamaica, 1845-1975 Archived from the original on July 28, 2011. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Manchester University Press (Ed.): The Journal of Transport History . 24, No. 1, Manchester , England , March 2003, p. 15.
