Sherwood Content is a small town in Trelawny Parish, Jamaica. It consists of two adjoining villages, Sherwood and Content. It is the home town of world record sprinter Usain Bolt. It contains the Sherwood Content Health Centre, a post office,[1] Waldensia Baptist Church and Waldensia Primary School. Bolt has funded over $3 million in repairs to the health centre and gave the green light to a memorandum of understanding between the National People's Co-operative Bank (NPCB) and the Ministry of Health.[2][3] The village contains a number of dilapidated 19th-century houses. William Knibb was reported to have shown an early interest in the area; Sherwood is associated with the Dawkins family.[4]
Sherwood Content | |
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Small Town | |
  Sherwood Content | |
| Coordinates: 18°23′26″N 77°37′49″W / 18.39056°N 77.63028°W | |
| Country |  Jamaica |
| Parish | Trelawny Parish |
| Population | |
| • Estimate (2021) | 1,499 |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (EST) |
Notable people
edit- Usain Bolt, Jamaican athlete, Olympic gold medalist and world record sprinter
References
edit- ^ Jamaica. Dept. of Statistics (1963). Census of Jamaica, 7 April, 1960. p. 471. Retrieved 17 September 2011.
- ^ "Sherwood Content". Usainbolt.com. December 2010. Archived from the original on 14 July 2011. Retrieved 17 September 2011.
- ^ Robinson, Corey (5 April 2010). "Bolt gives back to Sherwood Content". Jamaican Observer. Archived from the original on 7 April 2010. Retrieved 17 September 2011.
- ^ Besson, Jean (2002). Martha Brae's two histories: European expansion and Caribbean culture-building in Jamaica. UNC Press Books. p. 155. ISBN 978-0-8078-5409-9. Retrieved 17 September 2011.
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