Rose Hall Plantation

There is much intrigue that surrounds Rose Hall and the story of its infamous owner, Annie Palmer, who is commonly referred to as "The White Witch of Rose Hall."

During her time as mistress of the plantation, Annie became known to practice voodoo magic. Using her black magic Annie reportedly murdered her first groom, John Rose Palmer, along with two subsequent husbands and countless lovers. She was rumoured to have terrorized the plantation, watching slaves tortured from her balcony, taking male slaves into her bed at night, allegedly dispatching them when she was bored.

Built in the 1770s and fully restored in the 1960s, Rose Hall is widely regarded to be a visually impressive house and the most famous of the Great Houses in Jamaica. A Georgian mansion high on the hillside, with a stone base and a plastered upper story, with a panorama view over the coast Rose Hall still boasts much of its old splendour. Decorated with silk wallpaper printed with exotic birds and palms, ornamented with chandeliers and furnished with European antiques.

Today we are able to tour Rose Hall Plantation, seeing first hand where Annie Palmer ate, slept, murdered her husbands, and also areas of the house where she is said to haunt including her tomb.