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St Catherine Parish

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The parish immediately west of Kingston, capital Spanish Town, which was Jamaica's capital until 1872. Portmore's growth turned much of it into a dormitory for the city, and the parish holds Sligoville, where Leonard Howell's Pinnacle commune established the first organised Rastafari settlement.

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standard Jamaican parish geography; individual town records cited on their own entities.

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