Rose Hall Great House reports

Record summary

Rose Hall Great House is an eighteenth-century Jamaican plantation house associated with the legend of Annie Palmer, popularly called the White Witch of Rose Hall. Although the alleged events predate the requested period and are historically disputed, tourism development and late-twentieth-century storytelling made the house a major haunted-place attraction during the 1970s and 1980s. It is valuable for comparing plantation memory, gendered folklore, and commercial ghost narratives. Researchers should separate documented ownership records from the later literary and tourist construction of Annie Palmer’s biography.