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Discover Annaberg Sugar Plantation, Fort Christiansvaern’s Entrance, Point Udall’s Millennium Monument.
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industrial heritage
Annaberg on St John preserves a windmill tower, factory and other plantation structures from the Danish colonial period. Sugar, molasses and rum were produced for export through the labour of enslaved Africans. The surviving buildings are evidence of both an industrial process and the severe inequalities on which that process depended.
Source: U.S. National Park Service
history
Look beside the gates for the small red sentry stand. Built between 1738 and 1749, this fort served Danish colonial power on St. Croix. It also held prisoners and was an instrument of oppression. Today the historic site helps explain that complicated past rather than only the story of its defences.
Source: www.nps.gov
culture
The monument is a large sundial, built in 2000 to mark the new millennium. Its stone-faced fins and central upright turn sunlight and shadow into part of the design. It stands on St. Croix’s eastern end, where the open horizon gives the setting its striking character.
Source: www.visitusvi.com
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