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Estate St. George Historic District
The Estate St. George Historic District represents a succe...
Friedensfeld Midlands and Moravian Church and Manse
Friedensfeld (Field of Peace) was the third Moravian missi...
Columbus Landing Site
This Salt River Bay site is the only known place where mem...
Friedensthal Mission
The Moravians arrived in St. Croix in 1734, and by the 180...
Christiansted National Historic Site
Founded on the site of an earlier French settlement, Chris...
Cinnamon Bay Plantation
Established by the Danes in 1717, Cinnamon Bay Plantation ...
Mary Point Estate
The Mary Point Great House and Factory, where cotton was c...
Annaberg Historic District
The Annaberg Plantation is one of several St. John's plant...
Hermitage Plantation Historic District
Although established after 1780, the cotton-cultivating He...
Emmaus Moravian Church and Manse
The Emmaus Moravian Church and Manse are significant as ex...
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Estate St. George Historic District
The Estate St. George Historic District represents a successful late 18th-century sugar plantation. Owned by the Heyliger family during the era known as the "Golden Age of Sugar" (1770 to 1782), the estate continued to process sugar until 1916. After ...
Friedensfeld Midlands and Moravian Church and Manse
Friedensfeld (Field of Peace) was the third Moravian mission on St.Croix. In 1807, the Brethren acquired six acres from Estate Mon Bijou. Although a foundation stone was laid in 1807, construction was delayed due to the disruptions caused by the ...
Columbus Landing Site
This Salt River Bay site is the only known place where members of Columbus's expedition set foot on what is now U.S. territory, and was the site of the first armed clash between Europeans and American natives. On November 14, ...
Friedensthal Mission
The Moravians arrived in St. Croix in 1734, and by the 1800s they had established two flourishing missions, one of which was Friedensthal (Valley of Peace) Mission. This mission served as an important center in Governor General Peter Von Scholten's ...
Christiansted National Historic Site
Founded on the site of an earlier French settlement, Christiansted was laid out in a grid pattern with two market places. Market Square is located between Company and King Streets in the west end of town and Sunday Market is ...
Cinnamon Bay Plantation
Established by the Danes in 1717, Cinnamon Bay Plantation is one of the earliest sugar plantation settlements on St. John. In 1733 the owner of the plantation, Daniel Jensen, played a pivotal role in the slave rebellion which swept the ...
Mary Point Estate
The Mary Point Great House and Factory, where cotton was cultivated and cattle grazed in the past, is associated with Governor Berg, 19th-century Governnor and President of St. Thomas and St. John, influential late 18th-century planter Augustus Kragh and the ...
Annaberg Historic District
The Annaberg Plantation is one of several St. John's plantations owned in the 1720s and 1730s by Frederick Moth, the first Danish Governor of St.Croix and, later, the Governor General of the Danish West Indies. By the early 19th century, ...
Hermitage Plantation Historic District
Although established after 1780, the cotton-cultivating Hermitage Plantation possessed numerous plantation buildings by 1800. The structures of Hermitage Plantation Historic District are clustered along the north side of Borck Creek, one of Coral Bay's several inlets. By the mid-19th century, ...
Emmaus Moravian Church and Manse
The Emmaus Moravian Church and Manse are significant as examples of the Moravian architectural style. The Moravians were the first Protestants to send missionaries to the West Indies and were in the Danish Islands as early as 1732. They were ...
