At the end of the seventeenth century, the famous "Father Labat" is the priest of the town of Macouba. At that time, the house situated on the edge of the River Roche was a sugar factory.
It was in 1790 that Antoine Leroux-Préville acquires and gives it its present name, Fonds-Préville. In 1845, the daughters of Antoine Leroux-Preville, surrender the property to Jean-Marie Martin, a merchant at Saint-Pierre and Marie Ferment husband, daughter of a prominent planter of the island.
Today, the heirs of Crassous de Médeuil exploit three main agricultural crops of Martinique: banana (75 ha), pineapple (6 ha) and sugar cane (55 ha). This is the only farm to do so by the crop rotation. The presence of these three cultures and JM distillery on the same farm is an unique case in Martinique and even in the Caribbean.
Since November 1996, the agricultural rums of Martinique rums with JM got the label controlled designation of origin, in French Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée (A.O.C.). The cultivable area of Habitation Bellevue is about 150 hectares, all in local A.O.C.
