Waterloo Guest House

Black River is capital of St. Elizabeth Parish, in southwestern Jamaica. Brief history Saint Elizabeth originally included most of the south-west part of the island but in 1703 Westmoreland was taken from it and in 1814 a part of Manchester Jamaica (ˈdʒəˈmeɪkə} is an Island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length and as much as in width situated in the Caribbean Sea. Once a thriving sugar port, it is today a centre of environmental tourism and a gateway to the Treasure Beach resort area. Treasure Beach is a public beach in a small village of the same name on the South coast of Jamaica in the parish of St Elizabeth.

The town sits at the mouth of the river of the same name. The Black River is one of the longest rivers in Jamaica. At a length of 53 Treasure Beach is southeast of it, and the beaches of Crane to the southeast and Luana to the west.

Historically it is signigifant as the place where, in 1781, survivors of the slave-ship Zong were landed after most of their fellow-captives had been thrown overboard so that the owners of the vessel could collect on their insurance.

The Waterloo Guest House in Black River is the first place in Jamaica to have electricity.

Logwood tree trunks were floated down the Black River to the port to be shipped to England for making of dyes.