Brief History
Hanover was established on November 12, 1723, and given the family name of the British monarch, George I who was from the House of Hanover in Germany. In the early colonial days, Lucea, the main town, was an even busier town than Montego Bay. By the mid-18th century, Lucea was the hub of an important sugar growing region and the town was prosperous as a sugar port and market centre. Jews from Europe settled in the parish as merchants, store keepers, haberdashery, shoe makers and goldsmiths, and it became a free port.
After emancipation in 1834, the free people prospered and supplied produce to much of the rest of Jamaica. The harbour was used to export bananas until after the 1960s. A deep-water pier was built, but this has been restricted only to the shipping of molasses. In 1983, the port was closed, but the old Fort Charlotte still stands at one side of the entrance to the harbour. It was never used.
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