Spooner's Estate
Spooner's Estate is a historic cotton - and cane - plantation on the island of St. Kitts in the Caribbean island nation of St. Kitts and Nevis in the Lesser Antilles .
The site is near the southern end of the Town of Cayon in the Parish of Saint Mary Cayon . The property is considered one of the best preserved examples of St. Kitts' agricultural and industrial history. The only surviving egrenier machine (cotton ginnery, machine for ginning cotton bolls) on the island is located on the site .
history
The plantation has its origins in a draft animal-driven sugar mill from the late 17th century. In the late 19th century it was converted to steam power.
Around 1900 it passed to the owners Sendall and Wade . The new owners made industrial history in the Caribbean, as they built the first Cotton Ginnery on St. Kitts in 1901 and made Spooner's Estate one of the first Caribbean plantations to successfully convert from the sugar cane industry to cotton production.
The property can still be seen today and buildings and ruins of facilities from the 17th, 19th and 20th centuries can be seen in the complex. They bear witness to three great periods of agricultural history in St. Kitts and Nevis. No official conservation or restoration work has yet been undertaken.
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Coordinates: 17 ° 20 ′ 51.2 " N , 62 ° 44 ′ 13.7" W.