Things to do in Accompong
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Accompong Maroon Festival
The traditional Accompong Maroon Festival held each January 6 marks the signing of the 1739 peace treaty between war hero Captain Cudjoe of the Maroons with representatives of the King of England. The provisions of the treaty guaranteed the Maroons significant land holdings and personal freedom. In 2007 more than 15,000 visitors flocked to the small rural village for the festival, which features traditional dancing, drumming, mento bands and a wide variety of tonics and herbs.
The festival culminates with a traditional march to the revered Kindah Tree, where a specially prepared Maroon dish of unsalted and unseasoned pork is consumed with yams, but a loud sound-system kee…
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Accompong Community Centre & Museum
Opposite the monument to Cudjoe, the Accompong Community Centre & Museum contains a motley miscellany of goombay drums, a musket, a sword, baskets and other artifacts from the Maroon era. Entry is included only as part of a community tour, which takes in a Maroon burial ground, a small herbal garden and the Kindah Tree, a stately mango tree, where the elders of the community congregate and which is considered sacred. If the museum's closed, call Mark Wright for a quick whip round the village.
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craft shop
Local craftsmen still make goombay drums here. These - along with an array of medicinal herbs, calabashes and abeng horns - are for sale in the tiny red-and-green-painted craft shop as you enter town. The hand-carved goombay drum is box-shaped and covered with goatskin, and makes a wonderfully deep and resonant racket.
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Cudjoe Monument
Accompong is centered on the tiny 'Parade Ground,' where the Presbyterian church looks over a small monument that honors Cudjoe, the Maroon leader (the statue next to it is that of Leonard Parkinson, another Maroon freedom fighter).
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Peace Caves
There are several tours offered, including a one-hour trek down to the Peace Caves, where Cudjoe signed the 1739 peace treaty with the British.
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Maroon Attraction Tours
Maroon Attraction Tours offers customized excursions from Montego Bay. Ask for Kenneth.
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