Through the Caribbean Island of Jamaica runs the majestic mountain range known as the Blue Mountains. Above 5000 feet the land is thickly wooded and maintained by the government as Forest Reserve. Below this line the terrain and climate are perfectly suited to the cultivation of coffee. All of the natural elements combine to produce from the Arabica coffee that is grown there, a drink of rare and particular flavor, the delicious and unequaled Blue Mountain Coffee.
In the 1920's an enterprising planter and processor of ripe cherry coffee, Victor C. Munn, bought five acres of land at Mavis Bank in the Blue Mountains where he set up a pulpery which could process the coffee brought in from the outlying districts. Soon the surrounding estates found it best to send down their coffee to the Munn factory for processing. Mavis Bank Central Factory, having been destroyed by fire in 1955, was rebuilt and modernized by Victor Munn's nephew, Keble Munn.
