Pleystowe Sugar Mill

Pleystowe Sugar Mill, 2016

Pleystowe Sugar Mill is a former sugar mill in Pleystowe, Mackay Region, Queensland, Australia. It is owned by Mackay Sugar.[1][2] It closed in October 2008 after 139 years, having been the oldest operating sugar mill in Australia at the time of its closure.[3] However, the site continues to provide a number of centralised services to other operating mills within the Mackay Sugar group.[4]

References

  1. "Pleystowe Mill". Mackay Sugar. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
  2. "Pleystowe Sugar Mill". Mackay Historical Society and Museum Incorporated. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
  3. "Bittersweet memories as Australia's oldest sugar mill shuts its doors". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 30 October 2008. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
  4. "Our mills". Mackay Sugar. Retrieved 30 July 2016.

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Coordinates: 21°08′33″S 149°02′19″E / 21.1426°S 149.0387°E / -21.1426; 149.0387

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