In 1872 the capital was moved to Kingston, as the port city had far outstripped the inland Spanish Town in size and sophistication.

While Kingston and Montego Bay are home to a number of retail stores, including American fast-food franchises such as Domino's, Burger King, and KFC, the majority of the towns in the interior of the country, such as Mandeville, May Pen, and Spanish Town, have small shops, public markets, and temporary roadside stands.

The now disused Kingston railway station served the Kingston to Montego Bay main line with branches from Spanish Town to Ewarton, Bog Walk to Port Antonio, Linstead to New Works and May pen to Frankfield.

Kingston is widely accepted as a contraction of the English " King's Town ", of which there are many examples.

These include the professional football ( soccer ) clubs Bristol City, Swindon Town, Cheltenham Town ( whose home colours are red ) and, traditionally, Wrexham FC, as well as the English Rugby League team Hull Kingston Rovers ( whose home colours are white with a red band ).

* Kingston Town Centre-One of London's biggest shopping destinations, with hundreds of shops, cafes and restaurants, as well as a large entertainment complex consisting of Pizza Express and other restaurants, Odeon Cinema and Tenpin Bowling.

* Town of East Kingston official website

* Town of Kingston official website

East Kingston is located in the southeast corner of the Town of Ulster.

The Town of Esopus is on the west bank of the Hudson River south of the City of Kingston.

The Town of Esopus was founded in 1811 from Kingston, New York, which also was called " Esopus " at one time.

It is located just south of the city of Kingston, in the Town of Ulster.

Lincoln Park is in the south part of the Town of Ulster, adjacent to the north city line of the City of Kingston.

The Town of Marbletown is near the center of Ulster County, southwest of the City of Kingston.

Port Ewen is in the Town of Esopus, south of Kingston, New York, along U. S. Route 9W.

The Town of Ulster was established in 1879 from part of the Town of Kingston.

At the age of fifteen, McIntosh's aunt died and he moved to Trench Town in Kingston, Jamaica.

The brick Campbell's Station Inn was built there in 1810 and still stands on Kingston Pike within sight of the Farragut Town Hall.

Chief towns included Kingston, Port of Spain, Bridgetown, Spanish Town, Montego Bay, Mandeville, Castries, Roseau, St. George ’ s, Kingstown, St. John ’ s, and Basseterre.

The Town was also extended in the east along King Street ( then a part of Kingston Road ) to the Don River.

The playlist included Red Red Wine, Can't Help Falling in Love and Kingston Town.

Old Kingston Town Hall, with Civil War monument in foreground.

Simon found himself embracing new sounds, a fact that some critics viewed negatively – however, Simon reportedly felt it as a very natural artistic experiment, considering that " world music " was already present on much of his early work, including such Simon & Garfunkel hits as " El Condor Pasa " and his early solo recording " Mother and Child Reunion ", which was recorded in Kingston, Jamaica.

They are Westminster, which is termed the City of Westminster as it has city status, Kingston upon Thames, Kensington and Chelsea, and ( since 2012 ) Greenwich, which are termed " Royal Borough of ", due to their Royal borough status.

American poet and singer Rod McKuen began translating Brel's songs into English, and the Kingston Trio recorded one of his English versions on their Time to Think album, " Seasons in the Sun ", based on Brel's " Le moribond " ( The dying one ).

The term " Cataraqui ", from the original native name for Kingston, today refers to an area around the intersection of Princess Street and Sydenham Road where a village that later took the name was located.

One of the first roads in America, the " Old Mine Road ", which followed earlier Indian trails, led to sporadic Dutch and later settlements along its 104-mile length from New Jersey to Kingston, including Ellenville.

Francis Marion, who was known as the " Swamp Fox ", had an encampment near Kingston just across the Waccamaw River.

" Kingston " was later changed to " Conwayborough ", for General Robert Conway.

The first promo single being " For My Hood ", featuring DJ Khaled & Sean Kingston.

The Weavers ' sound and repertoire of traditional folk material and topical songs directly inspired The Kingston Trio, a three-piece folk group who came to prominence in 1958 with their hit recording of " Tom Dooley ", which peaked at # 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

One of the first bands to craft a distinctly American sound in response to the British Invasion was The Beach Boys ; while not a folk rock band themselves, they directly influenced the genre, and at the height of the folk rock boom in 1966 had a hit with a cover of the 1920s West Indian folk song " Sloop John B ", which they had learned from The Kingston Trio, who, in turn, had learned it from The Weavers.

Known as the " City of the 1000 Islands ", Brockville is located on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River, directly opposite Morristown, New York, about half-way between Cornwall in the east and Kingston in the west, and roughly a 40-minute drive to the national capital of Ottawa.

The group formed in the Waterhouse district of Kingston in 1972, initially called simply " Uhuru " ( the Swahili word for freedom ), with a line-up of Derrick " Duckie " Gong Simpson, founder and CEO, Garth Dennis, and lastly Don Carlos Their first release was a cover version of Curtis Mayfield's " Romancing to the Folk Song ", which was followed by " Time is on Our Side "; Neither song was a success and they split up, with Carlos pursuing a solo career, as did Dennis, before joining The Wailing Souls.

" or " Charlie on the MTA ", a song recorded in 1959 by The Kingston Trio

The museum is located in " Cedarhedge ", the former Warden's residence of Kingston Penitentiary that was constructed between 1870 to 1873.

* In 2002 Wyclef starred in the Jamaican crime film, Shottas as " Richie Effs ", about two young men who participate in organized crime in Kingston, Jamaica and Miami, Florida.

Randall takes the Mogwai, which he gives the name " Gizmo ", to his family in the town of Kingston Falls.

* " Jane, Jane, Jane ", a song by The Kingston Trio

McPherson's troops followed the Confederates " vigorously ", and were resupplied at Kingston, Georgia.

* Egri-Nagy, A .; and Nehaniv, C. L. ( 2005 ), " Algebraic Hierarchical Decomposition of Finite State Automata: Comparison of Implementations for Krohn – Rhodes Theory ", in 9th International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata ( CIAA 2004 ), Kingston, Canada, July 22 – 24, 2004, Revised Selected Papers, Editors: Domaratzki, M .; Okhotin, A .; Salomaa, K .; et al.

Ink print, " Citadel of Kingston ", by William Henry Bartlett ( 1809-1854 )

* The Manchester based band Sonic Boom Six sampled " Funky Kingston ", for their song " Monkey See, Monkey Do ", on the 2005 Champion Edition of their album, Sounds to Consume.

In the Kingston Trio recording, the name " Walter A. O ' Brien " was changed to " George O ' Brien ", apparently to avoid risking protests that had hit an earlier recording, when the song was seen as celebrating a socialist politician.

The Kingston Trio was one of the most prominent bands of the era's pop-folk boom that started in 1958 with the release of their first album and its hit recording of " Tom Dooley ", which sold over three million copies as a single.