Sherwood Content
Small Town in Trelawny Parish, Jamaica
Sherwood Content
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Small Town
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Coordinates: 18°23′26″N 77°37′49″W / 18.39056°N 77.63028°W / 18.39056; -77.63028 | |
Country | Jamaica |
Parish | Trelawny Parish |
Population
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Estimate
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1,499 |
Time zone | UTC-5 (EST) |
Sherwood Content is a small town in Trelawny Parish , Jamaica . It consists of two adjoining villages, Sherwood and Content. It is the home town of world record sprinter Usain Bolt . It contains the Sherwood Content Health Centre, a post office, [1] Waldensia Baptist Church and Waldensia Primary School. Bolt has funded over $3 million in repairs to the health centre and gave the green light to a memorandum of understanding between the National People's Co-operative Bank (NPCB) and the Ministry of Health. [2] [3] The village contains a number of dilapidated 19th-century houses. William Knibb was reported to have shown an early interest in the area; Sherwood is associated with the Dawkins family. [4]
Notable people
- Usain Bolt , Jamaican athlete, Olympic gold medalist and world record sprinter
References
- ↑ Jamaica. Dept. of Statistics (1963). Census of Jamaica, 7 April, 1960 . p. 471 . Retrieved 17 September 2011 .
- ↑ "Sherwood Content" . Usainbolt.com. December 2010. Archived from the original on 14 July 2011 . Retrieved 17 September 2011 .
- ↑ Robinson, Corey (5 April 2010). "Bolt gives back to Sherwood Content" . Jamaican Observer . Archived from the original on 7 April 2010 . Retrieved 17 September 2011 .
- ↑ Besson, Jean (2002). Martha Brae's two histories: European expansion and Caribbean culture-building in Jamaica . UNC Press Books. p. 155. ISBN 978-0-8078-5409-9 . Retrieved 17 September 2011 .