Titchfield Hotel, Port Antonio, Portland. Built by the United Fruit Company for wealthy passengers of their banana boats.

• It was constructed around 1891, in time for the opening of the Great Jamaica Exhibition.
• In the early days, the hotel only employed American waiters.
• It burned? and was reopened in 1905. The new building was at a cost of someplace about $300,000.
• In 1936, the main building was demolished.
• In 1937, United Fruit Company sold the hotel annex to local businessmen. It was rebuilt and fitted along the most modern lines.
• In October 1937, there was a roof fire. See article.
• At the end of December 1937, the hotel reopened.
• In 1959, the hotel was purchased by Rex Rand. It was to be extensively rebuilt and to become the Jamaica Reef Hotel.
• In Fall 1960, face lifting and reconstruction work was underway and should be completed for the upcoming Winter season. All 34 rooms are being modernized, and the dining room will be larger, air-conditioned and glassed in for a better view. The lobby will be more spacious and there will be an air-conditioned cocktail lounge in addition to the poolside bar. Shops will line the curving entrance. It will be under new management.
• Throughout the 1960s beauty contests were held at the hotel. And many other events.
• The hotel closed after the 1965 winter season for reconstruction. Reconstruction work has been going on since mid-1966, but a February 1967 strike by the reconstruction workers could delay. It did reopen at the end of February 1967.
• In March 1968, an expansion scheme was unveiled.
• In July 1969, the hotel burned down. The annex is all that was left. See clipping on looting during the fire.
• Today the property is part of the Jamaican Defence Force on the west side of the peninsula on the bluff above the Errol Flynn Marina and facing Navy Island.