File:3-4 VIEW OF ENGINE, LOOKING SOUTHEAST, WITH SCALE - Estate Whim, Overhead Crank Steam Engine and Cane Mill, Westend Quarter, Centerline Road, Frederiksted, St. Croix, VI HAER VI,1-WEST,1C-5.tif

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3-4 VIEW OF ENGINE, LOOKING SOUTHEAST, WITH SCALE - Estate Whim, Overhead Crank Steam Engine and Cane Mill, Westend Quarter, Centerline Road, Frederiksted, St. Croix, VI
Photographer
Lowe, Jet
Title
3-4 VIEW OF ENGINE, LOOKING SOUTHEAST, WITH SCALE - Estate Whim, Overhead Crank Steam Engine and Cane Mill, Westend Quarter, Centerline Road, Frederiksted, St. Croix, VI
Description
PandW McOnie of Glasgow; Morris, Scott, transmitter; DeBoer, Ruth, transmitter; Virgin Islands Planning Office, sponsor; Delony, Eric, project manager
Depicted place Virgin Islands (US); St. Croix; Frederiksted
Date 1985
date QS:P571,+1985-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions 5 x 7 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HAER VI,1-WEST,1C-5
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: The overhead crank steam engine and associated cane crusher now displayed at the Estate Whim Museum were manufactured by P. and W. McOnie, Glasgow, Scotland in 1847. Originally installed at Estate Mount Stewart, the apparatus remained in service until the 1860s when a horizontal steam engine and crusher from Estate Spring Garden replaced it. The mill was disassembled and stored at the factory, and was subsequently buried when the factory collapsed. In 1975, several representatives from the St. Croix Landmarks Society, planning to remove the horizontal engine from Mount Stewart, discovered the buried pieces of the overhead crank mill...
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-4
  • Survey number: HAER VI-5-C
  • Building/structure dates: 1847 Initial Construction
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/vi0077.photos.166770p
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