Jamaica · Jamaica
St. Ann's Bay
Where Columbus was marooned, and Marcus Garvey was born.
- Population
- 13,671 (2009)
- Columbus marooned
- 1503–1504
Then
- 1503–1504
Columbus is stranded here for a year and calls it Santa Gloria.
- Before 1526
Spain's first Jamaican settlement, Sevilla la Nueva, grows sugar nearby.
- 1887
Marcus Garvey is born here.
Now
Ocho Rios has overtaken it, but St. Ann's Bay keeps a traditional feel.