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Vieques (/ v i ˈ eɪ k ə s / ⓘ; Spanish pronunciation:), officially Isla de Vieques, is an island, town and municipality of Puerto Rico, and together with Culebra, it is geographically part of the Spanish Virgin Islands.
USS Graham County beached at Vieques, Puerto Rico, 1964. The Department of the Navy started searching for a location to situate a naval base during the 1940s. Land was sold at a fair price to wealthy land owners at a fixed price while other smaller native land owners and tenant farmers were sometimes not compensated for their land, and relocated elsewhere on the island or forced to leave.
The Spanish Virgin Islands (Spanish: Islas Vírgenes Españolas), [1] [2] formerly called the Passage Islands (Spanish: Islas del Pasaje), commonly known as the Puerto Rican Virgin Islands (Spanish: Islas Vírgenes Puertorriqueñas), consist of the islands of Vieques and Culebra, located between the main island of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands in the northeastern Caribbean. [3]
National Register entries listed below are found in the highlighted 16 municipalities of Puerto Rico. This portion of National Register of Historic Places listings in Puerto Rico covers the eastern region of Puerto Rico, from Carolina in the northeast to Arroyo in the southeast. It also includes the islands of Culebra and Vieques.
Map of Puerto Rico from 1952. In 1898, during the Spanish–American War, Puerto Rico was invaded and subsequently became a possession of the U.S. The first years of the 20th century were marked by the struggle to obtain greater democratic rights from the U.S. [citation needed]
MCAS Vieques Airport was a Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) at MCB Camp Garcia on the island-municipality of Vieques in Puerto Rico. It was built in 1960 by USMC engineers and consisted of a single 5,000 ft east–west runway. [1] It was used to fly in troops, equipment and supplies to support amphibious landing training missions. [1]
Florida was in Spain's gazetteers [6] until Puerto Rico was ceded by Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish–American War under the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1898 and became an unincorporated territory of the United States.
The initiative was not an isolated event, but part of an island-wide modernization project for "maritime illumination" (es: "Plan de Alumbrado Maritimo en la Isla de Puerto Rico"). Puerto Rico's coasts were coming into the light with the establishment of fourteen lighthouses of which the Isla Cabras Light was the twelfth in line.