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Historically, the earliest accounts say coffee came to Jamaica sometime in the early 1700s.
The story of how coffee came to Jamaica supposedly goes back to when King Louis XIV was presented with a coffee bush, which was later stolen and brought to the island of Martinique. In 1728, Sir Nicholas Lawes, the Jamaican Govenor and a British Knight planted the bush, which later spread the coffee over the whole Island. Now coffee is grown on many plantations, including the Blue Mountains in Jamaica with elevations soaring up to 7000 feet and rich tropical soils where the prized coffee is grown.
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