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Spring Garden Plantation Sugar Mill
Marker detail: Sugar Mill Wheel
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| | This artifact is all that remains of the original sugar mill wheel. The sugar mill was constructed in the 1830s and operated until 1864, when the property was Spring Garden Plantation. The wheel powered the machinery that pressed sugar cane for its . . . — — Map (db m189215) HM |
| | In front of you is the sugar train, which was used to boil cane juice to produce sugar. Enslaved Africans constructed the bottom 5-6 rows of bricks in the 1850s. This is all that remains of their work here when the area was Spring Garden Plantation . . . — — Map (db m189217) HM |
| | Two examples of sugar cane crushing machinery from the mid-1800s are shown below. Dunlawton Plantation used machinery similar to what you see displayed here but the mill was steam powered. Spring Garden Plantation (here) was the only water powered . . . — — Map (db m189225) HM |
May. 7, 2024
