Estate Carolina Sugar Plantation

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Estate Carolina Sugar Plantation
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LocationWest of Coral Bay on King Hill Road, Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands
Coordinates 18°20′58″N64°43′07″W / 18.349444°N 64.718611°W / 18.349444; -64.718611
Area117 acres (0.47 km2)
Built1717, 1725, 1733
Architectural styleColonial Danish West Indies
NRHP reference No. 76002217 [1]
Added to NRHPJuly 19, 1976

The Estate Carolina Sugar Plantation near Coral Bay on Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands is a historic sugar plantation and later rum distillery.

Contents

The sugar plantation for sugar cane growing and processing was in operation during the colonial Danish West Indies period.

It was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1976. The listing included eight contributing sites on a 183 acres (0.74 km2) property. [1]

History

Frederik von Scholten: Plantation Carolina near Coral Bay, 1833 Frederik von Scholten - Carolina at Coral Bay, St. Jan.jpg
Frederik von Scholten: Plantation Carolina near Coral Bay, 1833

The estate was in the 1730s owned by magistrate Johannes Sødtmann. Jis estate was the starting point of the successful 1733 slave insurrection on St. John which began on 23 November and carried almost the entire island of St. John. [2]

Today

The plantation's ruins include: [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. 1 2 Samuel N. Stokes, Russell Wright, Annie Hillary, and Margaret Praukauer (May 16, 1976). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Estate Carolina Sugar Plantation". National Park Service . Retrieved June 1, 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) With four photos from 1976.