Mona, Jamaica

Parish

Mona, also often referred to as Mona Heights, is a country town in the south of Jamaica. The city lies in County Surrey in the Parish of Saint Andrew. In 2010, Mona had a population of 2621 people. The place is located in the western foothills of the metropolitan area of Kingston and has a separate municipal government.

Etymology

Mona was named about 1768 after the Roman name for the Isle of Anglesey. The original name of the city was Yeamans. This was the name of the family who had owned the land.

Geography

Mona has only from the west a natural city limits. There, the city is separated from an average of 400 meter high ridge with the name Long Mountains of the capital, Kingston. This is heavily wooded. A large part of the western outskirts of the city, however, distinguished from a lake named Mona Reservoir, which is located between the city and the Long Mountains.

From east to north-east Mona adjacent to the Limestone River. On the opposite side of the river, the two also independent cities Elletson Flats and Papine. In the north, Mona is limited to a short stretch of wooded area before starting in the Northwest Hope Pastures and around the city extending to the south and reflows in the village of Liguanea. The two settlements surround Mona completely southwest direction to the natural boundary of the Mona reservoir, a large lake. In the south, the place goes to the cities of College Common and August Town. These are the last offshoots of the Kingston Metropolitan Region, which is at this point in the midst of a wide canyon.

History

On the grounds of the campus of today's University of the West Indies were originally the plantations Papine and Mona, who produced until 1908 sugar. An aqueduct, from the ruins still remain, led water to the sugar mills. On a part of the site the Gibraltar Camp was built during the Second World War, in which refugees from Gibraltar and Malta, and prisoners of war were housed from Germany and Italy.

Culture and Environment

Train

In Mona is the headquarters of the University of the West Indies, a university in the Caribbean, which is supported by 16 States. The UWI was founded in 1948 and its first campus was located in Mona. There, the teaching began with 33 medical students. The current chapel at the main entrance to the campus was originally the sugar bearing a plantation in Trelawny Parish. The building was demolished there and assembled on campus Mona again. Except for a College nor the University Hospital of the West Indies belonging to the association, which is also located in Mona.

The Jamaica College is a monoedukationistisches College of the Anglican Communion, which taught exclusively male students.

A nationally known school is the School of Physical Therapy in the Mona Rehab Centre. Other schools are among others the Mona High School, the Mona Prep School and the Mona Primary School.

Structures

Are the remains of an aqueduct built by Thomas Hope Elleston, which was built in 1758 at various locations around the city. Originally 1386.84 meter long structure with the name Papine - Mona Aqueduct was built to transport water from the Hope River to the existing at that time sugar plantations.

The Mona Great House was in 1681, while the estate Mona was founded, built. The two-storey building was built in Jamaican - Gregorian style. In the Mona Great House notables as Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip stayed.