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ecotourism BARBADOS - business $3 Million Attraction Planned For Mill
Monday 19, April-2004 by Mike King The Barbados National Trust wants to develop four acres of land around the Morgan Lewis Windmill as a $3 million tourist attraction.
The National Trust owns the one-quarter of an acre of land which houses the unique stone mill, the cornerstone of the development, but the plantation is owned by the Bannister family and their consent would be required for the project to become a reality. “We did some surveys about a year ago and we have noted the high number of tourists who pass this property in buses, cars, mokes and coaches, with Sunday our biggest day. When we get the coaches from the cruise ships, we have hundreds of visitors coming through. “There is tremendous scope for it as a tourist attraction. It is a beautiful area, the Scotland area, and I believe it would give employment to the local crafts people. The plantation is about 265 acres, but we would only need about four-and-a-half acres from the Bannister family,” Goddard said. He said it could be at least two years before any plans come to fruition, but he was happy with the preliminary surveys that had been conducted.
The canes that were ground were grown organically at Burnt House Plantation in Indian Ground, St Peter, and were donated to the National Trust. Six-and-a-half tonnes of sugar canes were ground at the mill, which was built in the 1850s and given by Egbert Laurence Bannister to the Trust in April 1963. Grinding at the mill is done four times a year – the second Sunday of each month from January to April – the dry season, windy time and the visitor season. Compliments of the the
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