Nanny Town
Nanny Town was a village in the Blue Mountains of Portland Parish, northeastern Jamaica, used as a stronghold of Jamaican Maroons. During the early 18th century, the region was led by an Ashanti escapee slave known as Queen Nanny, or Granny Nanny, who gave the town its name.- Archaeological site
- …lies at an elevation of around 940 metres (3,090 feet)
- …is also known as “Old Nanny Town”
- Description: village in Jamaica
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Latitude
18.06667° or 18° 4′ north
Longitude
-76.53333° or 76° 32′ west
Open location code
77C53F88+MM
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Urdu—“Nanny Town” goes by many names.
Nanny鎮Chinese
Nanny TownDutch
ナニー・タウンJapanese
Nanny TownNorwegian Nynorsk
نینی ٹاؤنUrdu
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