Nanny Town

Nanny Town
Abandoned Maroon Village
Nanny Town
Coordinates: 18°04′06″N 76°31′27″W / 18.0683°N 76.5242°W / 18.0683; -76.5242[1]
Country	Jamaica
Parish	Saint Thomas
Founded	c1700
Destroyed	1734
Founded by	Nanny

Old Nanny Town was a village in the Blue Mountains of Portland Parish, north-eastern Jamaica, used as a stronghold of Jamaican Maroons (escaped slaves). They were led in the early 18th century by an Ashanti escaped slave known as Queen Nanny or Granny Nanny. The town held out against repeated attacks from the colonial militia before being abandoned in 1734.^[2]