Two story, masonry, residence and shop, with 4 arcades on lower floor and gingerbread trim on second story balcony. Studio of photographer Alex Ovesen and birthplace of Evelyn Richardson. Owners include Samuel Wescott’s children 1864-1950, Wenona de . . . — — Map (db m60817) HM
Along the wharf you would have heard the creaking of rigging and pulleys as ships unloaded foodstuffs, plantation supplies, and building materials. The scent of sugar and molasses sweetened the air. Down the street plodded oxen, snorting with . . . — — Map (db m60815) HM
This building was the third stop in the local chain of commerce. After conducting business at the Scales and Guinea Company Warehouse, merchants and planters paid import and export taxes to Danish customs officials here in the ground-floor . . . — — Map (db m60709) HM
This fort played a vital role in Christiansted’s international trade. Built at harbor’s edge to protect commercial shipping from pirates and privateers, the fort embodied colonists’ fears as well as economic strength. Here were quartered Danish . . . — — Map (db m60707) HM
Since the dawn of consciousness, time has been measured by the movement of the sun. This marker, in the year 2000, is a continuum between all who have come before and all who are yet to come. The design concept starts with the Roman numeral “M”= . . . — — Map (db m60837) HM
This site marks the only point on the United States Territory where members of the crew of Christopher Columbus came ashore on his second voyage to the New World in November 1493. It also relates to the first recorded altercation between Europeans . . . — — Map (db m60782) HM
This building was the first Danish Lutheran church on the island—one of the few government buildings not directly involved in international trade. From 1754 to 1831 the Steeple Building was the embodiment of the Danish state religion. All . . . — — Map (db m60711) HM
Eighteenth Century Danish Customs House with nineteenth century addition of the 2nd story gallery. Owner is V.I. Government. Little Altered and in good condition.
Placed by St. Croix Historic Preservation Commission
2006 — — Map (db m60873) HM
The Virgin Islands government had proposed a territorial park for the Reef Bay region of St. John as early as 1937. This led to feasibility studies by the U.S. Department of the Interior to determine if the resources of St. John warranted the . . . — — Map (db m60712) HM
In 1956 Laurance S. Rockefeller, financier and conservationist, donated over 5,000 acres through the Jackson Hole Preserve for the establishment of Virgin Islands National Park. While sailing the Caribbean in 1952, he became enchanted with the . . . — — Map (db m60713) HM
Private philanthropy has a long history and important role in the development of America’s National Park system.
Charitable donations by the Rockefeller family, notably by Laurance S. Rockefeller, helped to establish, enlarge or improve . . . — — Map (db m60716) HM
As you wander the ruins, picture the thriving 18th-19th century sugar factory: big rollers crushing the cane, juice pouring down to the boiling room, and everywhere the thick scent of rum and molasses. This was the Danish plantation era, when sugar . . . — — Map (db m60776) HM
Intense heat. Steam rising from huge cauldrons. A foreman shouting to watch the last copper. This empty ruin was once the heart of Annaberg’s sugar operation.
Workers ladled the cane juice from kettle to kettle, gradually concentrating and . . . — — Map (db m60781) HM
When the breeze died, mules, horses or oxen plodded an endless circle in the sun while slaves fed cane to the rollers. A box at the base caught and held the juice until the factory called for more.
In the early 1900’s, after the sugar industry . . . — — Map (db m60780) HM
Primarily used for sleeping and household storage, typical “wattle and daub”’ huts with woven stick walls (wattle), dirt floors, and tyre palm roofs comprised Annaberg’s slave quarters on the slope below. The exteriors were plastered . . . — — Map (db m60777) HM
If there was a steady breeze, cane was brought to the windmill. Revolving sails turned a central shaft, rotating the rollers and crushing the stalks. Juice ran down the rollers into the gutter and flowed downhill to the factory.
The windmill, as . . . — — Map (db m60779) HM
Built in 1874 to replace a wooden
structure, this neo-classical building
served as a military barracks for Fort
Christian. It later housed the Charlotte
Amalie High School, and today the
Virgin Islands Legislature. A grand
staircase with . . . — — Map (db m193621) HM
A Brief History…
Fort Christian, at the grand age of 326 years, is the oldest standing structure in continuous use in the Virgin Islands and the oldest Danish fortication under the American flag. In 1977, Fort Christian was designated a . . . — — Map (db m40333) HM
In 1666, the same year that the Danish West India Company took possession of St. Thomas, this congregation was founded by Pastor K.J. Slagelse as an outpost of the Evangelical (Lutheran) State Church of Denmark. Worshipping at first in private . . . — — Map (db m40615) HM
Built before 1725, the Frederick Church Parsonage is one of the oldest homes on St. Thomas in continual use since construction. It is situated next to Government House and directly north of Frederick Church and Fort Christian. Its location bears . . . — — Map (db m229190) HM
In the Virgin Islands there landed on 4 April 1607 for a stay of 3 days, a company of 144 Englishmen bound for Virginia. On 13 May 1607 that same group founded at Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement beyond the British Isles. . . . — — Map (db m193617) HM
In the late 1600s detractors of the Danish Colony referred
to St. Thomas with justification as "The Den of Pirates".
Pirates performed acts of bloody violence. Times glossed over their
crimes and imbued them with romance. Titillating legends . . . — — Map (db m193622) HM
1904 1969
This Bandstand is Dedicated
to the memory of
David E. Monsanto
Bandmaster
St. Thomas Community Band
1935 - 1969
Pursuant to the Act. No. 2804 Bill No. 4534
8th Legislature of the V.I. of the U.S.
His was a life of . . . — — Map (db m40457) HM
Dedicated To You, A Free Citizen In A Free Land
This reproduction of the Liberty Bell was presented to the People of the
Virgin Islands
By the direction of
The Honorable John W. Snyder
Secretary of the Treasury
It was the . . . — — Map (db m40456) HM
The St. Thomas Reformed Church is the
oldest congregation in the Virgin Islands and
a member of the oldest denomination with a
continuous ministry in the United States.
Organized by Dutch traders, the first
European settlers, as the St. . . . — — Map (db m193619) HM
Originally built as a private home in Danish Manor style, it was acquired by Frederick Church in 1908.
Bethania has been used by the congregation as a home for the aged and parochial school. It has served the community as a post office and . . . — — Map (db m193618) HM
This Plaque Expresses Appreciation
and Perpetuates the Memory of
Arthur S. Fairchild
Long time friend and president of
St. Thomas who on December 27, 1946
donated the major portion of
Magens Bay Beach and 56 acres of
land in . . . — — Map (db m40461) HM
