The Hog Islandwindmill is the only known surviving brick windmill structure once used on sugar estates during colonial rulein Guyana.
The Hog Island windmill ruin is said to be located on a former Dutch plantation called Plantation Lyksburg on the eastern side of the 57 km² island.
Constructed on a six-foot mound, the structure stands some 28 feet high, and is made of granite blocks and red brick; the brick being used primarily as facing for the big windows and archways.
After years of obscurity and neglect, the National Trust of Guyana conducted several trips and some field research to restore the structure as a historic heritage site and, in 2010, the Trust restored the windmill; italso erected a fence and constructed a footpath at the site.
Windmills were important for sugar production and widely used in British Guiana and across the Caribbean region to crush cane to extract the juice.The cut cane was brought to the mill by slaves, donkey or cart. Inside, more slaves fed the cane through rollers to extract the juice.
