Monument sights in Kingston
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National Heroes Park
The 30-hectare oval-shaped National Heroes Park was the Kingston Racecourse. Today its north end is a forlorn wasteland grazed by goats. At the park’s southern end, however, National Heroes Circle contains some intriguing statues and memorials. The tomb of Sir Alexander Bustamante is a flat marble slab beneath an arch. More interesting is the Memorial to 1865, commemorating the Morant Bay Rebellion with a rock on a pedestal flanked by bronze busts of Abraham Lincoln and a black slave with a sword. Marcus Garvey is also buried here, as is ex-premier Norman Manley, whose body was flown here from England in 1964 and reinterred with state honors. The Manley Monument, hon…
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Kingston Parish Church
The gleaming white edifice facing William Grant Park’s southeast corner is Kingston Parish Church, today serving a much reduced congregation of true Kingstonians – those ‘born under the clock’ (within earshot of its bell). The original church was destroyed in the 1907 earthquake and was replaced (in concrete) by the existing building. Note the tomb dating to 1699, the year the original church was built. Admiral Benbow, the commander of the Royal Navy in the West Indies at the turn of the 18th century, lies beneath a tombstone near the High Altar. Marble plaques commemorate soldiers of the West Indian regiments who died of fever or other hardships during colonial wars.…
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Rodney Memorial
Dominating Parade square on the north side is the elaborate Rodney Memorial, built in honor of Admiral George Rodney, who crowned his four-year service as commander-in-chief of the West Indian Naval Station in 1782 when he saved Jamaica from a combined French and Spanish invasion fleet at the Battle of the Saints. He stands within a cupola temple, with sculpted panel reliefs showing the battle scenes. The monument is fronted by two brass cannons from the French flagship.
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Negro Aroused Statue
The Negro Aroused statue is actually a replica; the original is in the National Gallery. This bronze statue depicting a crouched black man breaking free from bondage is the work of Jamaica’s foremost sculptor, the late Edna Manley.
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Bank of Jamaica
The Bank of Jamaica, the national mint and treasury at the east end of Ocean Blvd, is fronted by a tall concrete statue of Noel 'Crab' Nethersole (Minister of Finance from 1955 to 1969).
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