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ANCIENNE HABITATION DE FOND MOULIN

Office de Tourisme Fond Moulin 97218 Grand'RiviÃ¨re (Martinique)

Phone : 05 96 55 72 74

Located in Grand-Riviere, at the end of a very popular hiking trail, bottom mill is an old typical agricultural House of the 19th century. It is also one of the few places in Martinique to retain traces of the island's rural past. A hiking trail of 1 h 30 from the village to discover the natural, rural and historical heritage of old housing bottom mill. Ruins, Creole gardens, River, Cove and forests along this trail. History: In 1660, Pierre Cocquet said Lafontaine, a former committed was the owner. Had received it, his contract ended, and intended to develop its plot. He tried food culture like many of these new arrivals.
His estate, located between the Tatira ravine and the Orange River was fertile. It was also launched successfully in the production of petun, Achiote and indigo. In 1672, he decides to leave his property, and a certain FranÃ§ois Ourceaux became the new master. It extends it through a clean concession and continues to increase the agricultural activity. His son-in-law, David Bourke, originally from County Galway, transforms the property in candy "Borq" there are plots of bananas, cassava, Yam and peas.
In 1774, Jean-Louis de Montredon transforms habitation in coffee and cocoa. There is a dryer, a ventilated stone Manor House, a garden, a street box-Negroes", a store-hospital, a warehouse, a cattle Park, cuisine and a chicken coop.
In 1804, a dealer of Saint-Pierre, Guillaume Paul Mery de Neuville Pontroget (originally from Saint-Aignan-les-Rouane, Seine-InfÃ©rieure) bought the concession. It established, between 1809 and 1819, in a "background" a hydraulic mill powered by the Orange River, which finally gives the place its name. Above, the traditional candy, consisting of a crew of four to six boilers: 'The great', 'own', 'the torch' and 'battery', therefore turns the sugar cane.
In 1820, he assigns his heritage Jean Sabat Cassius de Linval, originally from the Aryan and civil servant in Saint-Pierre.
At the end of the sale in 1865, housing is awarded to gentlemen Ulysse de Chatenay and company, merchants resident in Saint-Pierre. In 1868, she was sold to Paul NÃ©gouai, mulatto who was enriched as Baker's Grand' River.
In 1878, it was purchased by Jean-Baptiste DÃ©sirÃ©, who abandons the sugar. Joseph Louis FranÃ§ois Paul Waddy became owner in 1896. Waddy descendants not resell the domain to Guy Philippe FranÃ§ois than in 1989.
In 1999, it becomes the property of the Conservatoire du littoral, which has partnered with EDF to renovate the remains, in the context of an insertion site. The inauguration took place in 2013.