Spooner's Estate is a historical site in Saint Kitts and Nevis.
It is located near the Southern entrance of town of Cayon. The site is noted as being one of the finest examples of agro-industrial history on Saint Kitts, and contains the only surviving cotton ginnery on the island.
The estate began as an animal-driven sugar mill estate possible around the late 17th century, and converted to steam power in the late 19th century.
Around 1900, its ownership changed hands and Sendall and Wade. These new owners made Spooner's Estate historical in the Caribbean, as in 1901, they installed the first ginnery on St. Kitts and made this estate one of the Caribbean's first to successfully convert from sugar production to cotton production.
The remains of the site today show the structure and ruins of agro-industrial technology from the seventeenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and thus represents three major periods of agricultural history in Saint Kitts and Nevis. No official restoration project or national park proclamation of the area has been made.
Coordinates: 17°20′51″N 62°44′14″W / 17.347566°N 62.737126°W / 17.347566; -62.737126 (Spooner's Estate)
Famous quotes containing the words spooner and/or estate:
“Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught fighting a liar in the quad; you will leave by the next town drain.”
—William A. Spooner (1844–1930)
“Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)