1660 English under Colonel Tyson discover Lluidas Vale.
1665 First patents for land in Lluidas Vale, to Richard Garland and John Eaton.
1670 Francis Price’s patent for 840 acres “Wood Land” at Worthy Park, filed on November 28.
c. 1680 Worthy Park “Great House”, with six rooms, built (it fell down c. 1895).
c. 1710 First sugar grown in Lluidas Vale, on Thetford. Worthy Park was producing about 250 hogsheads a year from 200 acres by 1730.
1740 (Dec) Improved road into Lluidas Vale from Old Harbour and Guanaboa Vale authorized by Jamaican Assembly.
1741 First record of rum production 3,000 gallons produced.
1752 (Oct.) Aqueduct from Murmuring Brook to Worthy Park authorized by special Act of Assembly steered through by Speaker Charles Price.
1783 Beginning of continuous estate records, ordered from Cornwall by absentee proprietor John Price of Penzance.
1791-5 Resident management of young Rose Price. Great improvements in
production and efficiency, including “New Road” to Ewarton and Port Henderson.
1812 Peak of production of original estate: 705 Hogsheads sugar, 350 puncheons rum, worth £20,000.
1838 “Full Freedom” for Worthy Park’s 400 slaves. Sugar production down to 140 hogsheads by 1840.
1843-8 George Price’s vain attempt to save Worthy Park by mechanization.
1845-1917 Intermittent importation of indentured labourers from India helps to solve Worthy Park’s perennial labour shortage.
1863 (June) Sale of Worthy Park by Encumbered Estates Commission to Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot, for £8,550. This ended the Price era.
1874 Area doubled by purchase of Swansea for £640.
1875-84 Building of Public Market, Post Office, Police Station and Anglican Church at Lluidas Vale on land donated by Worthy Park.
1881 Area raised to 10,000 acres by purchase of Thetford for £1,300.
1899(July) Worthy Park purchased for £8,200 by J. B. Calder, who raises cattle population to 800 and introduces cocoa and bananas.

 

 

 
 
The Bog Walk - From anther Hakewell print showing the 0x-drawn
transport of the time, hauling hogsheads of sugars.
 
The New Road - From a Hakewell print, late nineteenth century.
This is the road from Lluidas Vale to Ewarton.
 
 
 
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