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Reginald's Tower

Reginald’s Tower is a circular defense tower, set in Waterford City’s historic Viking Triangle. It was built at the beginning of the 13th century. At various stages in its rich history, Reginald’s Tower has been used as a mint, prison ...

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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. ...

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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 ...

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Frederiksted Historic District

The Frederiksted Historic District symbolizes 200 years of western St. Croix's political history. Frederiksted was laid out in a grid plan by surveyor Jens Beck. Fort Frederik constructed by the Danes the following year to protect them from pirates, was ...

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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, ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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, ...

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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, ...

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 ...

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