Tryall Great House and Ruins of Sugar Works

Located twelve miles west of Montego Bay, Tryall began as the site of a British coastal fort built to guard against Spanish and French invaders before becoming a sugar estate around 1675 under its first recorded owner, Henry Fairchild. The original Great House, whose construction date is unknown, was destroyed on January 8, 1832, when it and the estate's sugar works were burnt during the Christmas Rebellion led by Sam Sharpe. Both were rebuilt in 1834, and throughout the 19th century the property was held by absentee landowners. In the 1930s, the Browne family, then owners of Tryall, expanded the great house into a sixteen-room hotel, which closed in 1939 at the outbreak of the Second World War and reopened in 1949.

In 1957, the Tryall Corporation, a group from Texas, purchased the estate and transformed it into a luxury resort, retaining the great house as its central feature much as it had been in the eighteenth century, while making considerable alterations, including demolishing the two wings the Brownes had added and furnishing the house with antique pieces from Scotland. The Tryall Great House and the ruins of its sugar works were declared national monuments by the Jamaica National Heritage Trust on September 13, 1990.