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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15B0_windmill_Poultney-St-John.html
If there was a steady breeze, cane was brought to the windmill. Revolving sails turned a central shaft, rotating the rollers and crushing the stalks. Juice ran down the rollers into the gutter and flowed downhill to the factory.The windmill, as we…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15AZ_slave-quarters_Poultney-St-John.html
Primarily used for sleeping and household storage, typical "wattle and daub"' huts with woven stick walls (wattle), dirt floors, and tyre palm roofs comprised Annaberg's slave quarters on the slope below. The exteriors were plastered (daubed) with…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15AY_annaberg-historic-trail_Poultney-St-John.html
As you wander the ruins, picture the thriving 18th-19th century sugar factory: big rollers crushing the cane, juice pouring down to the boiling room, and everywhere the thick scent of rum and molasses. This was the Danish plantation era, when suga…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM159C_philanthropy-in-the-national-park-service_Corsicana-St-John.html
Private philanthropy has a long history and important role in the development of America's National Park system. Charitable donations by the Rockefeller family, notably by Laurance S. Rockefeller, helped to establish, enlarge or improve national p…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1599_laurance-rockefeller_Christiansted-St-John.html
In 1956 Laurance S. Rockefeller, financier and conservationist, donated over 5,000 acres through the Jackson Hole Preserve for the establishment of Virgin Islands National Park. While sailing the Caribbean in 1952, he became enchanted with the peo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1598_establishment-of-virgin-islands-national-park_Christiansted-St-John.html
The Virgin Islands government had proposed a territorial park for the Reef Bay region of St. John as early as 1937. This led to feasibility studies by the U.S. Department of the Interior to determine if the resources of St. John warranted the incl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1597_steeple-building_Christiansted-St-Croix.html
This building was the first Danish Lutheran church on the island—one of the few government buildings not directly involved in international trade. From 1754 to 1831 the Steeple Building was the embodiment of the Danish state religion. All go…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1595_danish-customs-house_Christiansted-St-Croix.html
This building was the third stop in the local chain of commerce. After conducting business at the Scales and Guinea Company Warehouse, merchants and planters paid import and export taxes to Danish customs officials here in the ground-floor offices…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1594_fort-christiansvaern_Christiansted-St-Croix.html
This fort played a vital role in Christiansted's international trade. Built at harbor's edge to protect commercial shipping from pirates and privateers, the fort embodied colonists' fears as well as economic strength. Here were quartered Danish tr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR6Y_frederick-lutheran-church_Charlotte-Amalie-St-Thomas.html
In 1666, the same year that the Danish West India Company took possession of St. Thomas, this congregation was founded by Pastor K.J. Slagelse as an outpost of the Evangelical (Lutheran) State Church of Denmark. Worshipping at first in private hom…