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Bishop’s Palace Museum
Waterford city boasts the finest collection of 18th Centur...
Slob Historic District
The Slob Historic District began as a large sugar plantati...
Columbus Landing Site
This Salt River Bay site is the only known place where mem...
Cinnamon Bay Plantation
Established by the Danes in 1717, Cinnamon Bay Plantation ...
Annaberg Historic District
The Annaberg Plantation is one of several St. John's plant...
Fortsberg
The ruins of Fortsberg, a typical 18th-century citadel for...
Reef Bay Great House
The Reef Bay Great House Historic District represents the ...
Reef Bay Sugar Factory Historic District
Reef Bay Estate was established in the early 18th century ...
Catherineberg-Jockumsdahl-Herman Farm
The Catherineberg-Jockumsdahl-Herman Farm is linked with m...
Royal Darse Harbor
The Royal Darse Harbor is located in the natural deepwater...
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Bishop’s Palace Museum
Waterford city boasts the finest collection of 18th Century architecture of any city in Ireland outside of Dublin. Its great legacy from this era includes elegant architecture, silverware and of course, fine glassmaking. This period of elegance began in Waterford ...
Slob Historic District
The Slob Historic District began as a large sugar plantation in the mid-18th century. Owned by the Bodkin family until 1784, the estate boasted a factory building, a water mill tower, a "great house" constructed c.1750 and a slave village. ...
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, ...
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 ...
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, ...
Fortsberg
The ruins of Fortsberg, a typical 18th-century citadel fortress, are located on the summit of a high hill commanding Coral Bay. Ruins of a supporting shore battery, containing five cannon, lie 1,000 feet southeast of the fort. Begun in 1717, ...
Reef Bay Great House
The Reef Bay Great House Historic District represents the domestic aspects of the Great Estate which oversaw the sugar production found in the Reef Bay Sugar Factory Historic District. The Great House, originally associated with the Par Force Estate, is ...
Reef Bay Sugar Factory Historic District
Reef Bay Estate was established in the early 18th century as a cattle and cotton plantation. Combining with the Par Force Estate around 1800, the estate underwent a conversion to sugar cane production. The Reef Bay Sugar Factory Historic District ...
Catherineberg-Jockumsdahl-Herman Farm
The Catherineberg-Jockumsdahl-Herman Farm is linked with many of the families associated with the early settlement of St. Thomas and St. Croix. The de Nully, Beverhout and Heyliger clans were all significant in the early development of the Virgin Islands. A ...
Royal Darse Harbor
The Royal Darse Harbor is located in the natural deepwater Mediterranean bay of Villefranche-sur-mer on the Côte d’Azur of southern France. Fortified by the Duke of Savoy in 1550 as a harbor for the first navy of Savoy, the site ...
