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The island's indigenous Taino name is Ay Ay ("the river"). [3] Its indigenous Carib name is Cibuquiera ("the stony land"). [3] Its modern name, Saint Croix, is derived from the French Sainte-Croix, itself a translation of the Spanish name Isla de la Santa Cruz (meaning "island of the Holy Cross") given by Christopher Columbus in 1493. [4]
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.
The U.S. Census uses three districts (Saint Thomas, Saint John, and Saint Croix) as county equivalents. [5] [6] [7] In more recent census decades, quarters and estates have been replaced by 20 census subdistricts, which were defined by the territorial government as more meaningful given the terrain and current population distribution.
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.
[1] [2] The majority of the Indians that went to Saint Croix came from the provinces of Bihar and Bengal. At the time, both regions suffered from famines, lack of employment, civil unrest and high rate of poverty. These conditions encouraged some Indians to migrate to Saint Croix as indentured workers in hopes of escaping adverse conditions at ...
A person who is from Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands; A dialect of Virgin Islands Creole, spoken on St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands; Crucian carp, a freshwater fish; Crucian (Dungeons & Dragons), a creature in Dungeons & Dragons
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Mocko Jumbie during New Year's celebration in Christiansted, St. Croix, USVI, circa 1879-1904. Although stilt masquerades have historical significance across multiple Caribbean locales such as Anguilla , Antigua , Barbados , St. Kitts-Nevis , and Trinidad and Tobago , they have come to be particularly associated with the U.S. Virgin Islands due ...