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The road crossing I-95 leading to the park's former entrance, once renamed "Marco Polo Park Boulevard", reverted to its original name of "Old Dixie Highway". The community of Plantation Bay now occupies the site of the former park. One major hindrance to the park's success was the lack of a southbound exit off of Interstate 95 to access the park.
The Brown Bay Plantation Historic District, is a 30 acres (12 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981. The listing included 19 contributing sites. [1] Behind the beach of Brown Bay are the masonry remains of a large plantation house, a horsemill, and a sugar factory built between 1780 and 1800.
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]
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The Cinnamon Bay Nature Trail passes sugar plantation ruins, while the Bordeaux Mountain Trail leads to the highest point on the island at 1,277 feet (389 m) above sea level. The Reef Bay Trail offers views of forests, remnants of sugar mills, historical Taíno petroglyph rock carvings , [ 19 ] a spring-fed waterfall and reflection pool, as ...
Maho Bay Saint John: Ruins of the Annaberg sugar plantation. 81000089 Brown Bay Plantation Historic District: July 23, 1981 Brown Bay: Saint John 78000269 Cinnamon Bay Plantation: July 11, 1978 Cruz Bay: Saint John 78000270 Catherineberg Sugar Mill Ruins: March 30, 1978 Cruz Bay Saint John Example of an 18th-century rum factory, and ruins of a ...
The first sugar plantation on the land was started in 1725 on the Par Force Estate. Oxholm's 1800 map shows a sugar plantation with an animal mill on Par Force land. [6] After Reef Bay Estate was formed by joining the neighboring properties, a new sugar factory was built. The factory was used for processing sugarcane into sugar and distilling rum.