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Morgan Lewis Windmill, St. Andrew, Barbados is the biggest and only surviving complete sugar windmill in the Caribbean. The mill stopped operating in 1947. The mill stopped operating in 1947. In 1962 the mill was given to the Barbados National Trust by its owner Egbert L. Bannister for preservation as a museum .
Mount Healthy windmill is a ruined windmill on the north side of Tortola in the British Virgin Islands. It was formerly used during the plantation era of the Territory to crush sugar cane . After the collapse of the sugar economy in the early nineteenth century the windmill fell into disuse and became a ruin.
It was the first large-scale sugar plantation to operate in Antigua and belonged to the Codrington family from 1674 until 1944. Christopher Codrington, later Captain General of the Leeward Islands, acquired the property in 1674 and named it Betty's Hope, after his daughter. [1] [2] [3] Betty's Hope is no longer operational as a plantation.
Rose Hall sugar plantation house, Jamaica Warrens Great House, St. Michael, Barbados Sugar plantation in the British colony of Antigua, 1823. Sugar plantations in the Caribbean were a major part of the economy of the islands in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Most Caribbean islands were covered with sugar cane fields and mills for refining ...
The List of windmills is a link page for any windmill or windpump This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
A sugar plantation from the 18th to the 19th centuries, the farm eventually became land for grazing cattle. In 1733 one of the first significant slave rebellions in the New World took place on Saint John when African slaves took over the island for six months. During the slave revolt, the farm was the headquarters of the Amina warriors.
The town is located at the site of Estate Whim, a large sugarcane plantation, sugar mill, and rum distillery during the colonial Danish West Indies era. The Whin estate was in the 18th century owned first by Christopher MacEvoy Sr. and later by his son Christopher MacEvoy Jr. The stone ruins are on the National Register of Historic Places.
Holbrook Tower "Windmill", Hyannisport "Lighthouse", “Salt Shaker”, ... Heritage Plantation Mill: Smock: Windmill World: Sandwich Old Mill Smock: 1819