History

The Port Antonio Area is one of the most beautiful and scenic parts of Jamaica. Navigatable rivers, twin harbors, waterfalls, freshwater Blue holes and so much more.

Puerto Anton was the name the Spanish gave the town in honor of the Governor’s son. In 1723, the English laid out a rudimentary town on the peninsula between the twin harbors and named it Titchfield.

The swampy coastlands and the marauding Maroons kept all but a few settlers from calling this beautiful area home until 1739 when peace was established.

In 1871, the Port Antonio became the Banana Capital” of the world and a mainstay of the economy until 1946 and the arrival of Errol Flynn, when his yacht Zacca washed ashore in bad weather. Flynn and his Hollywood entourage began to call Port Antonio their vacation playground and another boom had begun.

Times have been slow since the Hollywood elite stopped visiting and the area has been in a sort of limbo just sleeping.