About Victoria Town Patriots
Who are we?
(The Patriots)
The Victoria Town Patriots is a non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation driven to create a more opportunistic and sustainable environment for our children and the community at large. This organization seeks to raise funds to build a community center for the Victoria Town community. Through this initiative, children will have access to technological devices and means that they neither have at school or at home. This project would act as a means of helping to educate our youths by giving them the platform to learn new skills, boosting parent-child interaction and will allow less time to be had for unproductive activities.
The Victoria Town Patriots consist of members both nationally and internationally, who have resided or who reside in the Victoria Town Community.
Location & Districts
Victoria Town is a rural community located in the South Easterly section of the parish of Manchester, 700km from parish capital, Mandeville. There are nine (9) districts that make up the community which are: Victoria Town Proper, Breadfruit Tree, Footer Hill, Little Mountain, Momby, Red Hills, Retrieve, Cassava Piece, and Campbell’s Field.
Did you know?
- The first place Queen Victoria visited in Jamaica was Manchester, as a result the community of Victoria Town was named after her.
- The town was one of the free villages in the island after slavery.
- The first post office, jail and prison in the island of Jamaica were located in Victoria Town.
- Residents had to walk many miles to Alligator Pond, Clarendon, Porus or St. Jago Spring Plains River for water.
- Women worked on Cane fields in St. Jago.
- Chinese came to live in Victoria Town and ruins of their building can be seen on the playing field.
- Babies were delivered by mid-wives.
- A majority of the community’s residents worked on the plantation in Clarendon.
- Majority of the residents stored their meat by way of salting them after which they would hang their meats in a mesh above wood fire. This was because up to this point there was no electricity in community. The alternative means of preserving meat kinds was by using kerosene powered fridges, which were only available to those who could afford it.
- The Community got Electricity.
- Running water became available via wells and a pumping station in the community, which served other nearby communities namely: such as Pusey Hill, Grove Town, Cross Keys and sections of Asia.
- The main means of employment for residents was from Reynolds Jamaica Mine and the parish council.
- Reynolds Jamaica Mine has stopped rearing cattle and so the residents who were previously employed would have no other option but to find other means of income.
- The Victoria Town Community Development Commission was formed. The Victoria Town CDC generated the first Community Development Plan in the island.
Economic Activities
The main economic activities or areas of employment of the community are farming and coal burning