Serpon Sugar Mill

[2] The cultivation of sugar cane was introduced to Belize, before becoming a British colony, in 1848 by the Maya and Mestizo refugees fleeing from the Caste War in the Yucatán Peninsula.

[1] Serpon Estate was bought by a Scottish man named William Bowman.

[1][2] In 1863, Bowman and the owners of another estate, Regalia, began construction on two steam-powered mills, marking the arrival of the Industrial Revolution in Belize.

Parts of the sugar mill at Serpon were manufactured by Stewart and Company in Glasgow,[1] and it's crusher, boiler, beam engine and furnace were all powered by steam.

[2] By the start of the 20th century, however, sugar production was found to be more profitable in the Corozal and Orange Walk districts, which led to the abandonment of the Serpon and Regalia mills in 1910.