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Estate Reef Bay, Sugar Factory, Reef Bay, St. John, VI
Summary
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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Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
McOnie, W
McOnie, A
Smith, L D
O.I. Bergust & Company
Marsh, William H
Zytsema, Anthony
Weyle, C
Vetter, John
Vetter, A E
Perth, A M
Smith, L D
National Park Service
Marsh, Ella
Faulk, Frank
Morris, Scott, transmitter
DeBoer, Ruth, transmitter
Virgin Islands Planning Office, sponsor
Delony, Eric, project manager
Delony, Eric, project manager
Location
reef bay, 18.32940, -64.73791
Source
Library of Congress
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