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Salt River Canyon is a prehistoric river and waterfall having cut two deep walls facing each other across a quarter mile of blue water. The feature is one of the best known of St. Croix's dive features, along with the Frederiksted Pier. The most popular scuba diving locations are a few hundred yards outside the Salt River Bay.
Frederiksted Historic District is a historic district located on the island of Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands. It was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1976. [1] Frederiksted Historic District includes the original town laid out in a gridiron plan in 1751.
Estate Rust-Op-Twist, situated near Christiansted on the island of Saint Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands, is a former colonial sugar plantation.It was a hub of sugar production from 1755 until the early 1900s, and is currently listed on the US National Register of Historic Places.
Frederiksted (the Danish translation of "Frederik's Place") is both a town and one of the two administrative districts of St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands.It is a grid-planned city, designed by surveyor Jens Beckfor, originally to 14x14 blocks but built 7x7 to enhance the island commerce in the 1700s.
Saint Croix Island was the site of an early attempt at French colonization by Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons in 1604. Nearly half the expedition's men died that winter before they moved to Nova Scotia and founded Acadia. Sited near the mouth of the Saint Croix River, both the NPS and Parks Canada have interpretive sites on the respective mainlands ...
St. Croix is the largest of the territory's islands. As of the 2020 U.S. census, its population was 41,004. [2] The island's highest point is Mount Eagle, at 355 meters (1,165 ft). St. Croix's nickname is "Twin City", for its two towns, Frederiksted on the western end and Christiansted on the northeast part of the island.