Mount Healthy windmill
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 crushed cane for the 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
- 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
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- Dutch Virgin Islands
- St. Phillip's Church
- Slavery
- Piracy
- Colonial leaders
- United States Virgin Islands
- British Leeward Islands
- West Indies Federation
- Effects of Hurricane Irma
- Anegada
- Beef Island
- Bellamy Cay
- Buck Island
- Carvel Rock
- Cockroach Island
- Cooper Island
- Dead Chest Island
- Diamond Cay
- Dog Islands
- East Seal Dog Island
- Eustatia
- Fallen Jerusalem Island
- Frenchman's Cay
- George Dog Island
- Ginger Island
- Great Camanoe
- Great Dog Island
- Great Thatch
- Great Tobago Island
- Green Cay
- Guana Island
- The Indians
- Jost Van Dyke
- Little Camanoe
- Little Cay
- Little Jost Van Dyke
- Little Thatch
- Little Tobago
- Little Wickams Cay
- Marina Cay
- Mosquito Island
- Nanny Cay
- Necker Island
- Norman Island
- Old Jerusalem Island
- Pelican Island
- Peter Island
- Prickly Pear
- Round Rock
- Saba Rock
- Salt Island
- Sandy Cay
- Sandy Spit
- Scrub Island
- Tortola
- Virgin Gorda
- West Dog Island
- Wickams Cay
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- Cooper Bay ruin
- Cooten Bay ruin
- Copper Mine
- Fort Burt
- Fort Charlotte
- Fort George
- Fort Purcell ("the Dungeon")
- Fort Recovery
- Great Thatch ruin
- Hunthum's Ghut ruin
- Johnson's Ghut ruin
- Larmer Bay ruin
- Mount Healthy windmill
- Road Town Fort
- St Phillip's Church ("the African Church")
- Trunk Bay ruin
- Whelk Point Fort
- Terrance B. Lettsome International Airport
- Queen Elizabeth II Bridge
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