Albion plantation

[4] Among the earliest owners of Albion plantation were John Nixon (died by 1774) who also owned Mullet Hall in Saint Thomas-in-the-East.

[2] In 1820-21, James Hakewill prepared a view of Albion for Robert Hibbert senior that was not included in his portfolio of pictures published in 1825.

[8] By 1877 when the plantation was surveyed by Thomas Harrison, it had over 500 acres in cane; and in 1880 output had reached 710 hogsheads of sugar and 480 puncheons of rum, making Albion the leading producer in Jamaica.

[11] The auction particulars stated that it was of 4,335 acres and had produced on average, over the last seven years, 380 hogsheads of sugar and 270 puncheons of rum.

[4]James H. Stark described Albion in this way in his 1898 guide to Jamaica: There is a moist freshness and a greenness in these large cane-fields that are sought for in vain elsewhere in the tropics.

Beyond these immense green fields are the long lines of barracks or quarters, painted white, and flanking the clustered stone and brick buildings of the plantation.

[14] The plantation "great house", known locally as Albion Castle, was already in ruins when Frank Cundall wrote his Historic Jamaica in 1915.