Chapelton, Jamaica

Chapelton is a market town in Clarendon Parish, Jamaica and the former parish capital.

According to a longtime resident:^[2]

Back in the days of plantation slavery in Jamaica, the Chapleton locality was a plantocracy settlement. Instead of going to church in the capital May Pen, the plantation owners built a church in Chapleton where they worshiped. Local folk therefore talked about going to "the chapel in the town." After a while, the town became known as Chapel Town but with the passing of time, the name became distorted and was shortened to become Chapelton.

• Clarendon College, secondary school.
• Clarendon Hospital, built c1903, now a community Type 3 hospital.^[2]
• Police Station.
• St Paul's Anglican Church, founded over 300 years ago.^[3]

Chapelton is on the B3 road which climbs up from May Pen in the south, passes through the center of the town and continues north towards Brown's Town.^[4]

From 1925 to 1974 Chapelton was served by Chapelton railway station on the 21 mile railway branch line from May Pen to Frankfield.^{[citation needed ]}

• Dennis Alcapone
• Everton Blender
• Toots Hibbert
• Linton Kwesi Johnson
• Barrington Levy
• Freddie McGregor
• Raphael Morgan (Robert Josias Morgan)
• Levi Roots
• Jah Shaka
• Cocoa Tea

• List of cities and towns in Jamaica

• Photos: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine [6] [7] [8] [9].

• Populated places in Clarendon Parish, Jamaica

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