Albion plantation

1889 map of Albion plantation[1]
Map of the associated Albion Mountain.[1]
Vacuum sugar vessel at The Great Exhibition, 1851.
Sugar refining equipment at Albion c. 1890 showing the triple-effect evaporators on the right.[2]
Albion, 1915.[3]

Albion was a sugar plantation in Saint David Parish, Jamaica. Created during or before the 18th century, it had at least 451 slaves when slavery was abolished in most of the British Empire in 1833. By the end of the 19th-century it was the most productive plantation in Jamaica due to the advanced refining technology it used. By the early 20th century, however, its cane sugar could not compete with cheaper European beet sugar, and it produced its last sugar crop in 1928. It subsequently became a banana farm for the United Fruit Company.

Albion gave its name to Albion Cane, Albion Sugar and the settlement of Albion Estate.

  1. ^ a b Map: Jamaica, particulars of a valuable Sugar Estate: know as Albion &c. Library of Congress. Retrieved 24 May 2019.
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  3. ^ Cundall, Frank. (1915) Historic Jamaica. London: Institute of Jamaica. p. 252.