Built in the mid-1800s in St. James, it is believed to be the home of Annie Palmer or the White Witch of Rose Hall, known for her cruelty and rumoured to have killed her three husbands and many slaves. The actual history is less dramatic. A Rosa Palmer, widowed twice before, passed on the estate to husband John Palmer from whom it passed onto a nephew, also John Palmer, who married an Anne Patterson. John Palmer’s death is not said to be mysterious and the legend is said to have been based on fictionalized accounts. In the late 1960s, John Rollins bought the property and returned it to former glory. The Rollins family continues to maintain and manage the property offering tours, golf courses, villas and resort hotels.
