Estate Reef Bay, Sugar Factory, Reef Bay, St. John, VI

Significance: The factory at Estate Reef Bay affords one of the finest surviving examples of the sugar industry in the West Indies. Boiling coppers, used for processing cane-juice, remain in place in their masonry boiling bench, and traces remain of other steps in the sugar-making process. The Estate is also one of only two on St. John known to have converted to steam power for crushing sugar cane.

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2

Survey number: HAER VI-2

Building/structure dates: ca. 1760 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: 1862 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: ca. 1725 Initial Construction

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