Barbados has a number of plantations and great house properties that were instrumental in the islands' booming sugar trade. Families often owned several plantations and the acreage of each often changed when owners bought and/or sold plots of nearby land. The sizes quoted here had been recorded as of 1915. After emancipation, more than half of the near 1000 plantation-estates became tenantry villages and remain villages to this day. Many of the remaining properties are now protected by the Barbados National Trust and very few may have been passed down to current family members.
See also List of plantations
References
Fraser, Dr. Henry S.; Hughes, Ronnie (2008). Historic Houses of Barbados. Wordsmith International. ISBN 978-976-95153-3-8. Button, David; Miller, Keith (31 July 2008). Architecture & Design on Barbados. Miller Publishing Company. ISBN 976-8078-93-6.
External links Chronicle Carbados - 1600s Barbados Public Records, Barbados Chronicle (rootsweb.ancestry.com) 1913 Barbados Plantations and Owners Names, creolelinks.com Plantations & Sugar-works Barbados Handbooks 1912 - 1914



