Representative George William Gordon, a wealthy mixed race businessman and politician from this district, was tried and executed in 1865 under martial law on suspicion of directing the rebellion.

Governor Eyre was forced to resign due to the controversy over his execution of Gordon and violent suppression of the rebellion.

In 1674, the French Admiral Du Casse, sailed from Santo Domingo and landed at Morant Bay on 17 June.

Baptist deacon and preacher Paul Bogle of St. Thomas parish led a delegation of small farmers who walked 72 kilometres (45 mi) to present their grievances to Edward John Eyre the Governor of Jamaica in the capital Spanish Town, but they were denied an audience.

Angered after a case in which a peasant was convicted of trespass on a long-abandoned plantation, on 11 October, Paul Bogle and his followers, armed with sticks and machetes, marched to the Court House in Morant Bay where a vestry meeting was being held.

[3] Representative George William Gordon, who was in touch with Paul Bogle, spoke out for the workers in the House of Assembly in Kingston.

The governor ordered him arrested and returned to Morant Bay, where he was tried under martial law for conspiracy and hanged on 23 October.

[3] The following day Bogle was captured by Jamaican Maroons from Moore Town, handed over to the authorities, and hanged.

It is very mountainous, with ranges that include the Port Royal Mountains, stretching from above Newcastle in St Andrew, to Albion in St Thomas; the Queensbury Ridge, between the Yallahs and Negro rivers; and to the extreme south, an isolated ridge called Yallahs Hill, with its highest elevation 730 metres (2,394 ft) above sea level.

The elderly, 65 years and over, accounted for 8.9%; this figure is lower than the national proportion of 11.1% reported by the Economic and Social Survey Jamaica (2010).

[5] Most small farmers produce domestic and orchard crops, which provide the main source of employment.

Current efforts are being made by Upliftment Jamaica to create, support and provide opportunities to the people of St. Thomas, and to encourage economic and social transformation on a community and county-wide basis.

The primary secondary road runs east to west along the foot of the Blue Mountains from Golden Grove to Richmond Vale, with north-south connecting roads linking it to the A4 at Pleasant Hill[verification needed], Port Morant, Morant Bay, Church Corner, Belvedere, Yallahs, Albion and Eleven Mile.

[6] Rail transport in St. Thomas was formerly limited to estate light railways, such as the one serving the former Bowden banana shipment port.