Georgia...we'll try to get up there today to check it out and cool pic...thanks.Originally Posted by Georgia
Though on the property numerous time, for some reason I've never been up to the top.
Georgia...we'll try to get up there today to check it out and cool pic...thanks.
Though on the property numerous time, for some reason I've never been up to the top.
Thanks Lisa - whenever you happen to be going by is fine... we won't be there for a few weeks yet. Worth a walk to the top for the views (and the exercise?)
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Thanks Georgia even those papers one dated 1968 should have been cared for. This is history of a great landmark just carelessly left laying around with no thought of it's historical value. Why doesn't it surprise me. I hope they were put away somewhere to be saved for future people to enjoy.
What I recall from my visit there is that the papers were on display for all visitors to see.
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Coming in from the cold...
I just found a picture from 2007 of papers at the light house and enlarged one. It looks like 1898.
Regards,
Bob
Too cool, Bob...to see the old papers from so long ago.
Maybe I'm the only one...but I'm not sure why the Jamaican government needs to be berated from not maintaining barometric pressure paperwork from the 1890's...other than it's a kinda cool factor.
Just to add...
And, I'm with Rob...wth kind of paper did they use in that era that it's still around? I have a couple of old books from the '50's that I swear are starting to disintegrate here.
Last edited by Bnewb; 10-25-2016 at 09:50 AM.
March 1898! I wasn't seeing things! Thought my memory had failed me.
Have a little experience with this subject as i live in the county that has the oldest continuous court records in the United States. The paper certainly look authentic and the ink does as well. Binded paper as in books are prone to rot as they hold in moisture but unbinded papers can last hundreds of years. The court records i speak of are over 350 years old and date well before the founding of our country. Anybody interested can search for these online. They are located in the Eastville courthouse in Northhampton County Virginia. To the question of weather and humidity.....well many will attest that a summer on a 11 mile wide, 90 mile long penisula with temps in the high 90s and humidity also in the 90 percent range for 3 months out of the year and our location surrounded by water will match Jamaicas pretty close. And although these papers are only weather records that in no way diminishes their historical value. Im surprised Rob that you dont see the importance of the Jamaican goverment needing to perserve these. After all they have gone thru a great deal of time and expense to collect and preserve hundreds of clay pipes from the Port Royal site. How do these one of a kind records not compare to hundreds of pipes. This type of history and the preservation of it so important to the idenity of a country. These are pure Jamican unlike pipes made for sailors in Denmark by the thousands for sailors that can be found all over the globe. Alright I am done ranting and apologize if I have upset anybody....was not my intention, but as a historian I felt the need to point out the importance of these records. After all if they were not interesting why did so many tourists take pictures of them?March 1898! I wasn't seeing things! Thought my memory had failed me.
I had the opportunity to work at our local historical museum. My job was to take a scrapbook of newspaper obituaries from 1919 and index all the names I found. It was truly an amazing experience. You would not believe how people died back then. The paper clippings were in perfect shape for being over 90 years old. Those obits where very valuable to researchers of our local history. Weather data from back then could be valuable to climate change researchers or other people doing hurricane studies. What some people might think as useless could be a pot of gold for other people. All of history is valuable for many reasons. I wonder where those papers in the picture are now.
I first saw them in 1992. They are probably still there.
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