Jamaica in 1494 - Discovery Bay, Jamaica - Signs of History on Waymarking.com

Columbus Park is an open-air historical and archaeological museum, set on 3 acres of Discovery Bay, overlooking the ocean. The museum features a wide range of artefacts which were excavated when the Kaiser Bauxite processing plant was developed.

Artefacts include, among others: a section of aqueduct from a sugar estate; a water wheel; the engine carriage from a train which was used to transport sugar; cannons; an Arawak canoe; a corn husker; a water cooler and a "tally" (the tool used to count bananas, made famous by the song "come Mr Tally-Man").

The marker reads: "Jamaica in 1494 - A botanical investigation of 1956 revealed that the enclosed area, undisturbed for centuries because of its inaccessibility and its rocky soil, had preserved the indigenous plant life as it must have appeared in 1494 in which year Christopher Columbus is believed to have sailed into the nearby harbour now known as Discovery Bay."

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Group that erected the marker: Columbus Park Jamaica Limited URL of a web site with more information about the history mentioned on the sign: [Web Link] Address of where the marker is located. Approximate if necessary: Highway A1 Discovery Bay, Jamaica

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Date Logged Log   08/27/2018 Ariberna visited it