Ruins of Rust Op Twist Sugar Mill Plantation, St. Croix, US Virgin Islands, Caribbean

Bettys Hope, historic early sugar plantation, 1651, restored windmill towers, Antigua, Antigua and Barbuda, Leeward Islands, West Indies, Caribbean, Central America

Ruins of Rust Op Twist Sugar Mill Plantation, St. Croix, US Virgin Islands, Caribbean

Windmill at Bettys Hope Historic Sugar Plantation, Antigua, Leeward Islands, West Indies, Caribbean, Central America

Betty's Hope in Antigua, a sugar plantation which provided livelihood for many generations of Antiguans, now a museum, St. Johns, Antigua, Leeward Islands, West Indies, Caribbean, Central America

An old American steam engine is still used at a Cuban sugar mill on a plantation in central Cuba, Cuba

Aerial view of historic sugar plantation in Iznaga in Sancti Spiritus Province taken from tower used to oversee workers, Cuba