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Extract from the Black River Travel Guides:
Although it's St Elizabeth's largest town,
BLACK RIVER
is a quiet spot, and most travellers only nip in briefly to take a boat trip on the river. It wasn't always this way: in the mid-nineteenth century the town derived substantial wealth from exporting
logwood
, used to produce black and dark-blue dyes for the textiles industry. For a brief period the town was one of the most influential in Jamaica. But the introduction of synthetic dyes meant the end for the logwood trade, and today the only signs of those illustrious days are some wonderful but decrepit old gingerbread houses.
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