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Discover Mount Healthy Windmill Ruin, Road Town’s Historic Prison Entrance, Virgin Gorda Copper Mine.
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history
Trace the thick circular wall and its large arched opening. The eighteenth-century mill ground sugarcane grown and processed by enslaved Africans on the surrounding plantation. Its surviving fieldstone tower is now cared for within a national park, preserving evidence of both engineering and exploitation.
Source: www.bvinpt.org
history
The heavy gate once separated the prison from Main Street on Tortola. The building now tells a different story as a museum: restoration began in 2014, and it opened to the public in December 2016. Its rooms and displays preserve a difficult part of the territory’s social history.
Source: www.bvitourism.com
industrial heritage
A copper mine operated on Virgin Gorda's south-eastern tip during the nineteenth century. Cornish miners and their families worked with local people, linking the island to mining knowledge from Britain. Surviving industrial structures and an abandoned engine beam provide material evidence for archaeological research into that community and its technology.
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