Sunbury
House
- Sunbury Plantation House, which is over 300 years old, creates a vivid impression
of life on a Sugar estate in the 18th and 19th centuries. The history of Sunbury
Plantation House, sited in the east coast St. Philip countryside, goes back
to Matthew Chapman, an Irishman, one of the first settlers in Barbados. The
estate was known as Chapman's Plantation and is shown on several early maps
of the island. It was eventually bought by two brothers, John Henry and George
Barrow, who greatly enlarged the plantation and changed the name of the estate
to Sunbury, the name of their home in England. Several decades and numerous
owners later, Sunbury House was opened to the public in January, 1984. After
a disastrous fire on July 24, 1995, the house was meticulously restored and
re-opened to the public in August, 1996.
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