The PORT ANTONIO AREA is perhaps the most beautiful and scenic part 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‘son but they made no real effort to settle the area.

In 1723, the English laid out a rudimentary town on the peninsula between the twin harbors and named it Titchfield after an estate owned by the then governor. The swampy coastlands and the marauding Maroons kept all but a few settlers from calling this beautiful area home. In 1739, peace was established with the Maroons and the population slowly started to grow.

In 1871, the banana industry began to flourish and later 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 and waiting for the next boom.