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Upon returning home, he established the first free newspaper, The Herald. The date of this event, November 1, is celebrated as an annual public holiday known as "Liberty Day", D. Hamilton Jackson Day, or Bull and Bread Day in the U.S. Virgin Islands. With the help of Ralph Bough, Jackson organized the St. Croix Labor Union in 1915.
The Virgin Islands Daily News was founded by Ariel Melchior Sr. in 1930, with business partner J. Antonio Jarvis leveraging a tourist brochure financed with a bank loan cosigned by friend Adolph Achille Gereau. With the success of the brochure he was able to attract further advertising and convince his family and the bank to extend a larger loan.
The town was founded by Captain Frederik Moth after he was made governor of St. Croix in 1733. Departing from St. Thomas, Moth's party had cleared a space for Fort Christianswærn by 5 September. In a ceremony next to this fort on 8 January 1734, the French formally handed the island over to the Danes in the form of the Danish West India and ...
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Johann Michael Lavien (or John Lavien) (c. 1717 – February 28, 1771) was a merchant and planter who lived on the Caribbean islands of Nevis and Saint Croix. [1] [2] He was the first husband of Rachael Fawcett, who later became the mother of Alexander Hamilton, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
WSVI (channel 8) is a television station serving the United States Virgin Islands that is licensed to Christiansted, Saint Croix, and affiliated with Ion. It is owned by Atlas News and Information Services alongside Charlotte Amalie–licensed independent station WZVI (channel 21). The two stations share studios at the Sunny Isle Shopping ...
[6] [8] He was the flown to Christiansted, where he was laid in state on Saint Croix's Government House as well. [6] Hodge's funeral was held at St. John's Episcopal Church in Christiansted on June 10, 2011. [6] He was buried at Frederiksted Cemetery with honors provided by the Virgin Islands National Guard. [6]