The sails
Turning in the wind.
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Morgan Lewis Windmill is a stone sugar-cane windmill on a hill in Saint Andrew parish, north-east Barbados. It is the largest complete sugar mill in the Caribbean and the only one surviving with all its parts, with big wooden sails that turn in the wind. The mill stopped working in 1947, and in 1962 its owner gave it to the Barbados National Trust to become a museum. It was put on the World Monuments Watch in 1996, then taken apart, restored and reopened in 1999, its sails turning and grinding cane again after more than half a century. It has appeared on the Barbados two-dollar note since 2013. You see the round stone tower, the wooden cap and the sails, and inside the original gears and machinery. Around the inner wall is a museum of plantation tools and old photos, and you can climb to the top. In the cane season, February to July, it runs one Sunday a month. The mill is 8 km in a straight line east of Speightstown. One listing gives free entry to the grounds, with self-guided tours at about BDS$10 and guided tours at BDS$20, which may change.
Turning in the wind.
Gears from the sugar era.
Climb up inside.
Morgan Lewis, Saint Andrew parish, north-east Barbados
In the cane season, February to July, one Sunday a month.
Yes, you can climb to the top inside.