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The Fountain Valley massacre was a mass shooting that occurred on the afternoon of 6 September 1972 at the Fountain Valley Golf Course in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. [1] The incident left eight resort employees and tourists dead. Another eight were either shot at or wounded.
The Slob Historic District includes the Great House and five slave cottages from the late 1700s and two from the early 1800s in the slave village. The slave village was the birthplace of Cyril King, the island of St. Croix's first native-born governor. The district also includes the stables and an 1840s factory building.
John Gottliff (also known as Moses Gotlieb, General Bordeaux, or Buddhoe) had led 8,000 blacks in a freedom march to Frederiksted. At the time, there were 17,000 slaves and 5,000 free blacks on St. Croix. [5] The fort includes a museum and art gallery, it is open weekdays from 8:30am to 4pm, and Saturdays from 1pm to 4pm. Admission is $3 (2015).
Estate La Reine, near Christiansted on Saint Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands, dates from around 1750.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The listing included three contributing buildings, two contributing structures, and a contributing site.
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.
Mar. 20—Stress, anxiety and more are a part of everyday life — and that's okay. That was part of the message delivered by Miss St. Croix Valley Natalie Demos during a visit to a third grade ...
Salt River Bay National Historic Park and Ecological Preserve is a unit of the National Park Service on the island of St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands. It preserves upland watersheds, mangrove forests, and estuarine and marine environments that support threatened and endangered species.
Its two miles (3 km) of sandy beaches on the southwest corner of Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands is an ideal nesting place for leatherbacks. The National Wildlife Refuge is open to the public for limited hours on Saturdays and Sundays.