Newly laid track with workmen in background, probably outside of Annotto Bay

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Huts typical of those built by subsistence farmers appear across the hills. By the 1890s most arable land had been consolidated into large plantations, driving the poor to the cities or to the less desirable mountainous areas.

Enlargement of the central area shows a work crew on a hand powered rail car with other workmen alongside.