Bog Walk is a town in the
parish
A parish is a territorial entity in many Christianity, Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest#Christianity, priest, often termed a parish pries ...
of
Saint Catherine,
Jamaica
Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At , it is the third-largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the is ...
.
In 1898 work started on a hydroelectric power plant on the
Rio Cobre
The Rio Cobre is a river of Jamaica. Its source is in the Rose Hall Mountain in the north-east of Saint Catherine Parish, the headwaters being a writhing of unnamed, seasonally dry tributaries. The highest of these rise just above the contour. Fr ...
near Bog Walk. The plant (1,500
H.P.) was completed the next year and used to power
Kingston
Kingston may refer to:
Places
* List of places called Kingston, including the six most populated:
** Kingston, Jamaica
** Kingston upon Hull, England
** City of Kingston, Victoria, Australia
** Kingston, Ontario, Canada
** Kingston upon Thames, ...
's tramway system (until then the cars were hauled by pairs of mules). In a June 1904 accident, 33 workers died while cleaning the huge water pipe feeding the power station.
The plant, one of the earliest in the Western Hemisphere, was closed in August 1966.
References
Populated places in Saint Catherine Parish
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