Hatton Garden (E)

An estate on the norhteast coast in the broad Pagua Valley which was once 300 acres in size. It was one of the prime estates in the original 1776 British survey of the island and it was owned named by the first English owners after a street in London called Hatten Garden famed for its shops trading in diamonds. The ruins of its mill and sugar and lime factory are still occupied. The water to power the mill was channelled in a canal from the St. Marie or Crapeau Hall River. In 1882, six years before emancipation, 197 slaves worked there and it produced 161,280 pounds of sugar and 5,500 gallons of rum. The water mill was in working order up to the end of the 1960's. In the 19th century the estate was owned by the Anderson Family, then in the 20th century by J.J. Musgrave and his heirs, then by the Shillingfords and latterly by the late Frobel Laville who subdivided and sold or distributed portions of the estate.

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