Famous Residents
- Singer and actress Grace Jones was born in Spanish Town.
- Sprinter Asafa Powell is from Spanish Town.
- Sprinter Yohan Blake attended school in Spanish Town.
- Former International West Indies Cricketer Jermaine Lawson is from Spanish Town.
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“Satan, what ails you? Where’s the famous tongue?
Thou onetime Prince of Conversationists?”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Most of the folktales dealing with the Indians are lurid and romantic. The story of the Indian lovers who were refused permission to wed and committed suicide is common to many places. Local residents point out cliffs where Indian maidens leaped to their death until it would seem that the first duty of all Indian girls was to jump off cliffs.”
—For the State of Iowa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)