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Forts and Mills

Forts and Mills British Virgin Islands: Mt. Healthy National Park

Short Overview

This park features the intact remains of a thickly walled stone windmill, once part of a thriving 250-acre 18th-century sugar plantation. The 18th-century windmill was once used for grinding the sugarcane, farmed from the steep slopes on the north shore of Tortola. Across the road from the windmill lie the ruins of the mill round, which animals powered, the factory with boiling house, the distiller, hospital and living quarters. Mount Healthy Windmill is the last remaining windmill in the BVI and was constructed from field rubble. Following the abolition of enslavement in 1834, workers from the Mt. Healthy estate could buy land to cultivate for themselves. However, the sugar industry deteriorated after a series of disastrous hurricanes in the 1830s and a drought in the 1850s, resulting in the windmill becoming a relic.  

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