Green Castle Estate
Description
Green Castle Estate has a vibrant and fascinating history.
Evidence of Green Castle's past can be experienced in surprising places all over the Estate.
Visitors can step inside our historic windmill tower built in the 1600's or find shards of pottery on Davey Hill from the original Green Castle inhabitants, the Taino Indians around 900AD.
The landscape is inspiring, and as you sit on the Estate House veranda looking out to sea, you can imagine tall ships coming into Jacks Bay to collect sugar, rum, cocoa and bananas to take back to European markets.
No doubt bloody battles ensued between the Spanish and the British or the Pirates.
Take a walk on the beach and you will see pieces of brick and English coal dropped on the beach when it was a busy port during Green Castle's plantation days.
Green Castle is deliberately building a long term plan for sustainable tourism and agriculture that integrates the local community and local business partners.
The property has a network of community and business stakeholders that work together to make the estate and the area successful.
The owners unique approach at Green Castle is to focus on tourism, while developing entrepreneurial opportunities for local businesses.
Come for a visit, and you are helping us build a sustainable future, writing a modern chapter in Green Castle's fascinating history.