Loolecondera

[1][2] The Loolecondera estate was purchased from the Crown by James Joseph Mackenzie in 1841 to establish a coffee plantation.

[3] The estate lay between 900 and 1,500 m (3,000 and 4,900 ft) above sea level and was covered in dense forest,[4] which wasn't cleared for a decade.

In October 1852 a seventeen-year-old James Taylor arrived in Ceylon, having signed up as an assistant supervisor with George Pride for three years.

[5] In 1865, on the instructions of the owners of the estate, he acquired Chinese tea seeds from the Peradeniya Botanical Gardens, these were planted along the sides of the roads and in the paths through the coffee plantation.

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