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Estate Judith's Fancy, subdistrict of Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of Christiansted is a former sugarcane plantation whose great house was built in 1733. [2] Its surviving 3.6 acres (1.5 ha) property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The listing included six contributing sites. [1]
The island's indigenous Taino name is Ay Ay ("the river"). [3] Its indigenous Carib name is Cibuquiera ("the stony land"). [3] Its modern name, Saint Croix, is derived from the French Sainte-Croix, itself a translation of the Spanish name Isla de la Santa Cruz (meaning "island of the Holy Cross") given by Christopher Columbus in 1493. [4]
Coakley Bay Estate is a 55 acres (22 ha) property in the East End area, east of Christiansted, Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. The listing included seven contributing sites .
The following are approximate tallies of current listings in the United States Virgin Islands on the National Register of Historic Places. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]
Høgensborg, the Søbøtkers' home on St. Croix. Høgensborg was originally the name of an estate owned by the Søbøtker family. General War Commissioner Adam Levin Søbøtker was for a while the largest landowner in the Danish West Indies. his son, Johannes Søbøtker, inherited Høgensborg and Constitution Hill after his father in 1823.
The estate passed through several owners while it was in operation. The great house , the main residence on the plantation, is a one-story Classical Revival limestone building completed in 1765. The factory and grinding mill, the two primary buildings used for sugar production, were also made of limestone; the distillery is located within the ...
In 1885, he sold the plantation to Hans Jacob Kofoed. The new owner was also from Bornholm. He was born at Klemensker in 1852 and moved to St. Croix in 1871. He died at St. Croix on 29 May 1924. [1] Sprat Hall was acquired by Miles Merwin, of Rob’t. L. Merwin & Co.in 1925. He lived on the estate with his wife and six children.
Hermitage, Saint Croix, also known as Estate Hermitage, is a settlement on the island of Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands. In the historical system of quarters and estates used there, it is estate 5 in St. Croix's King's Quarter. [3] It has an area of 1.478 square kilometres (0.571 sq mi) [1] and had a population of 14 as of 2020 ...