Black River Heritage Town

Historic Town · St. Elizabeth

Rating: 4.5 / 5

Historic town on the south coast in St. Elizabeth parish, sited at the mouth of the Black River, Jamaica's longest navigable river. Black River was the first town in Jamaica to have electricity, installed in 1893, and among the first to have the telephone and the motor car, thanks to the wealth of its late-19th-century logwood and mahogany merchants. The riverside main street preserves Victorian wooden houses, the Waterloo Guest House, and the old courthouse, and the town is also the base for the Black River safari boat tours.