Spooner's Estate
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Spooner's Estate is a historical site in Saint Kitts and Nevis
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It is located near the Southern entrance of town of Cayon
. The site is noted as being one of the finest examples of agro-industrial history on Saint Kitts
, and contains the only surviving cotton ginnery on the island.
The estate began as an animal-driven sugar mill estate possible around the late 17th century, and converted to steam power in the late 19th century.
Around 1900, its ownership changed hands and Sendall and Wade. These new owners made Spooner's Estate historical in the Caribbean, as in 1901, they installed the first ginnery on St. Kitts and made this estate one of the Caribbean's first to successfully convert from sugar production to cotton production.
The remains of the site today show the structure and ruins of agro-industrial technology from the seventeenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and thus represents three major periods of agricultural history in Saint Kitts and Nevis. No official restoration project or national park proclamation of the area has been made.
Saint Kitts and Nevis
The Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis , located in the Leeward Islands, is a federal two-island nation in the West Indies. It is the smallest sovereign state in the Americas, in both area and population....
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It is located near the Southern entrance of town of Cayon
Cayon
Cayon is a town on the northeast coast of Saint Kitts in the Caribbean. It is the capital of Saint Mary Cayon Parish. The 2010 estimated population was 805.Cayon is home to the campus of Windsor University School of Medicine.- References :...
. The site is noted as being one of the finest examples of agro-industrial history on Saint Kitts
Saint Kitts
Saint Kitts Saint Kitts Saint Kitts (also known more formally as Saint Christopher Island (Saint-Christophe in French) is an island in the West Indies. The west side of the island borders the Caribbean Sea, and the eastern coast faces the Atlantic Ocean...
, and contains the only surviving cotton ginnery on the island.
The estate began as an animal-driven sugar mill estate possible around the late 17th century, and converted to steam power in the late 19th century.
Around 1900, its ownership changed hands and Sendall and Wade. These new owners made Spooner's Estate historical in the Caribbean, as in 1901, they installed the first ginnery on St. Kitts and made this estate one of the Caribbean's first to successfully convert from sugar production to cotton production.
The remains of the site today show the structure and ruins of agro-industrial technology from the seventeenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and thus represents three major periods of agricultural history in Saint Kitts and Nevis. No official restoration project or national park proclamation of the area has been made.