The Estate Carolina Sugar Plantation near
Coral Bay on
Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands
Saint John (; ) is one of the Virgin Islands in the Caribbean Sea and a constituent Districts and sub-districts of the United States Virgin Islands, district of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI), an unincorporated territory of ...
is a historic sugar plantation and later rum distillery.
The
sugar plantation for
sugar cane
Sugarcane or sugar cane is a species of tall, Perennial plant, perennial grass (in the genus ''Saccharum'', tribe Andropogoneae) that is used for sugar Sugar industry, production. The plants are 2–6 m (6–20 ft) tall with stout, jointed, fib ...
growing and processing was in operation during the colonial
Danish West Indies period.
It was listed on the U.S.
National Register of Historic Places
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in 1976. The listing included eight
contributing sites on a property.
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History
The estate was in the 1730s owned by magistrate Johannes Sødtmann. Jis estate was the starting point of the successful 1733 slave insurrection on St. John which began on 23 November and carried almost the entire island of St. John.[
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Today
The plantation's ruins include: [ With .]
* sugar factory — built c.1725.
* animal mill — built c.1725.
* stone windmill tower — built in 1733.
* original distillery for bay rum production — built in c.1900
* a later distillery with "1925" upon it
* other Estate Carolina buildings from c.1900, 1920, and 1945.
See also
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References
External links
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Sugar plantations in Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands
Distilleries on the National Register of Historic Places
Ruins
Commercial buildings completed in 1725
Agricultural buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places
Buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States Virgin Islands
1725 establishments in North America
1720s establishments in the Caribbean
1720s establishments in Denmark
18th century in the Danish West Indies
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