Chapelton, Jamaica
Market Town in Clarendon, Jamaica
Chapelton
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Market Town
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Coordinates: 18°04′58″N 77°16′01″W / 18.082691°N 77.2669959°W / 18.082691; -77.2669959 | |
Country | Jamaica |
Parish | Clarendon |
Elevation
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218 m (715 ft) |
Population
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Estimate
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4,559 |
Time zone | UTC-5 ( EST ) |
Chapelton is a market town in Clarendon Parish, Jamaica and the former parish capital.
Name
According to a longtime resident: [2]
Back in the days of plantation slavery in Jamaica, the Chapleton locality was a plantocracy settlement. Instead of going to church in the capital May Pen, the plantation owners built a church in Chapleton where they worshiped. Local folk therefore talked about going to “the chapel in the town.” After a while, the town became known as Chapel Town but with the passing of time, the name became distorted and was shortened to become Chapelton.
Amenities
- Clarendon College , secondary school.
- Clarendon Hospital , built c1903, now a community Type 3 hospital. [2]
- Police Station .
- St Paul's Anglican Church, founded over 300 years ago. [3]
Transport
Road
Chapelton is on the B3 road which climbs up from May Pen in the south, passes through the center of the town and continues north towards Brown's Town . [4]
Rail
From 1925 to 1974 Chapelton was served by Chapelton railway station on the 21 mile railway branch line from May Pen to Frankfield . [ citation needed ]
Notable people from Chapelton
See also
References
- ↑ "World Gazetteer" . Archived from the original on 5 January 2013.
- 1 2 Chapelton - An Oral History Archived 21 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine , Myrel Elaine Moss (Sister Moss), golocaljamaica.com, 2003-01-01.
- ↑ Kathy Alison , Picasa, 2009-01-03.
- ↑ UK Directorate of Overseas Surveys 1:50,000 map of Jamaica Sheets G & H, 1973.
External links
- Photos: Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine .
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