One of the things you can do whilst on Grand Cayman is take the short journey to visit Pedro St James castle. Since its construction more than two centuries ago, Pedro St. James has been put to a variety of uses, including a courthouse, jail, Government Assembly and restaurant. Surviving hurricanes, fires, vandalism, and rumours of being haunted.
Grand Cayman was little more than an undeveloped fishing village, when with the use of slave labour, it was an Englishman named William Eden who built the expansive Great House and farmed the adjoining land as a plantation. NEW VIDEO IN VIDEO LIBRARY
Perhaps best known as the “Birthplace of Democracy in the Cayman Islands”, Pedro St. James was the venue for a meeting on 5 December 1831 where the decision was made to form the first elected parliament. Later, on 3 May 1835, Robert Thompson, sent from the Governor of Jamaica, held court at Pedro St. James to issue the proclamation ending slavery in the British Empire.
This plantation house illistrates the luxury the ruling classes lived in in comparison to the general population, nevery mind theire initial slave workers.
As a 18th centuary estate and plantation house, located as it is with magnificent sea views. You certainly get a feeling you could see a Spanish galleon, come sailing across the bay.
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