The mill is all in ruins now because the stones of the buildings were taken to use for building the Roman Catholic Church in 1950 and for other construction. However, near the main playing field, hidden by a large ficus tree, one can still see the tall chimney tower that served the estate factory. In 1827 the estate was being worked by 167 enslaved people and produced sugar, rum and molasses. This produce was shipped from the bay in canoes, which took the barrels of produce from the beach out to ships anchored in the calmer, deeper water, near the islands at the southern side of the bay.
The Estate Abandoned
During the period of maroon or runaway slave, Negre Mawon, uprisings in
Dominica, particularly in 1814-1815, large numbers of enslaved people on Castle
Bruce estate took off into the hills to secure their freedom. After the full
emancipation of the slaves in 1838, Castle Bruce was more or less abandoned by
its owners. The former slave families became peasant farmers and cows were left
to roam all over the estate valley. The village at that time developed along
the boundary of the two big estates, Richmond and Castle Bruce, because after
emancipation, all those persons who
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