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Set in the midst of the crumbling ruins of an old sugar factory, a short drive northeast of Farley Hill, with a tall chimney poking defiantly from the overgrown grass, Morgan Lewis Sugar Mill (Mon-Sat 9am-5pm; B$10) is the only windmill in Barbados still in operation. The island once boasted more than five hundred mills, all grinding juice from the sugarcane that covered the island like a blanket, but twentieth-century mechanization has all but eliminated them from the countryside. The Morgan Lewis mill, if not an essential object of pilgrimage during your stay on Barbados, provides an attractive and atmospheric testament to this part of the island's history. Though it's no longer in commercial use, the mill - first built in the nineteenth century - is still in perfect working order. The sails, wheelhouse and British-made machinery have been thoroughly restored over the last few years, and you'll get a demonstration of how the thick bamboo-like stems were pushed through mechanical grinders to extract cane juice, subsequently used for making sugar
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