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Welcome to the Windmills of St. Croix. While roaming about St. Croix, people wonder about the stone towers dotting the landscape. Many of these towers were windmills built for crushing sugar cane ( why we use the word windmills, not sugar mills ). Of the 150-160 windmills for crushing sugar cane ever built on St. Croix, 119 have been located.




