One of the Caribbean's largest and surviving windmill is located in Barbados in Morgan Lewis in St. Andrew, overlooking the Eastern coastline and the Scotland District.   Built in 1727, this typical wind-driven mill once crushed sugar cane to produce juice during the 18th and 19th centuries.  Morgan Lewis Windmill stopped its operation in 1947 and was handed over to the Barbados National Trust for preservation as a museum. 

This is the only restored sugar mill in the island.  A group of architects, engineers and craftsmen worked  to analyze the key problems at the site and to stabilize the mill and correct the deficiencies that threatened the building with collapse. Rotting timbers and other structural weaknesses necessitated the dismantling, repair, and reinstallation of the mill’s arms, wind shaft, and main cap frame.

The mill includes an exhibit of the equipment used to produce sugar at the time when the industry was run by wind power generated from mills such as this one. This unique historic and architectural monument is the only working sugar windmill of its kind in the world until 2007 when lightening struck.  

Tours of the Mill are available Tuesday - Sunday 10AM - 5PM
Stop in for a bite to eat!