One thing that has amazed me while working in Jamaica and visiting different historic sites are all the signs of the industrialization that came to many of the plantations in the form of machinery for processing sugar cane. The iron and brick remains of huge water wheels and the gears to turn the machines can be found throughout many of the plantation sites in the country side. Each one had it’s own factory used in the harvesting and processing of the sugar cane. It’s amazing to see this evidence of the industrial age over grown and reclaimed by the jungle foliage. It kind of puts things in perspective, to see how these symbols of technology and progress quickly become consumed by nature. That and it makes for some pretty cool pictures too!
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