Mount Healthy windmill
Mount Healthy windmill is a
sugar mill and rum distillery in nearby Brewer's Bay
.
There are other ruins like the Boiling House, remnants of the Animal Mill Round, distillery, hospital, storage, shed, and housing. The 18th century windmill belonged to the area's wealthiest planter. Slaves harvested and processed sugar cane into sugar at this extensive sugarcane plantation.
One of the owners of the mill was Balziel Hodge, son of the notorious Arthur William Hodge.
Today it is a national park.
Gallery
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The old sugar mill in Brewer's bay -
A copper vat for distilling rum from the old sugar mill
Sources
- Isaac Dookhan, History of the British Virgin Islands, ISBN 0-85935-027-4
- Vernon Pickering, A Concise History of the British Virgin Islands, ISBN 0-934139-05-9
See also
18°26′43″N 64°38′26″W / 18.44516°N 64.64064°W
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