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Culture & History in St. Croix

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Apothecary Hall Museum

A pharmacy at the corner of Company and Queen Cross Streets in Christiansted, established in 1820 by a Danish pharmacist and in service for more than 140 years until its last owner retired in 1970. The restored pharmacy reopened on its original site in 1987, holding apothecary bottles, drawers of dried and powdered medicines and antique pharmacy equipment.

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Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts

Gallery exhibitions, a permanent collection and an archive of Caribbean cultural and artistic heritage at 10 Strand Street in Frederiksted, St. Croix. The nonprofit museum also runs an artist-in-residence program, art classes for all ages and school field trips.

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Fort Christiansvaern's yellow ramparts at Christiansted National Historic Site, seen from the harbor.

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Christiansted National Historic Site

Seven acres of the Christiansted waterfront on St. Croix, where Fort Christiansvaern, the Danish Customs House and the Steeple Building stand. It became the first National Park Service unit in the Virgin Islands in 1952 and covers the Danish era of 1734 to 1917. Visitors walk the grounds and picnic on site.

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Estate Little Princess

A twenty-five-acre Nature Conservancy preserve on St. Croix, established more than 250 years ago as a Danish sugar plantation worked by enslaved Africans. The Hospital Building and Great House still stand in Afro-Danish architecture, and the grounds hold the Conservancy's Coral Innovation Hub along with trails for walking, birding and reaching the beach.

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Estate Whim Museum

A twelve-acre St. Croix Landmarks Society site on Centerline Road at the west end of the island, where a colonial-era great house, laborers' quarters and mill factory complex still stand. Programming covers Crucian music, visual arts, food ways and customs, and there is a research library and archive on the grounds.

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Fort Frederik

A Danish colonial fort in Frederiksted on St. Croix, built between 1752 and 1760 and now a National Historic Landmark restored to its 1780 configuration as a local history museum. It was the site of the earliest reported foreign-government salute to a United States ship, in October 1776, and of the 1848 emancipation revolt.

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Lawaetz Family Museum

Estate Little La Grange on St. Croix, the cattle and dairy farm Carl Lawaetz took over in 1896 and where breeding records begin in 1901. The St. Croix Landmarks Society has run it as a farmstead museum since 1996, and the house is shown with the family's original furnishings.

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Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve

A 1,015-acre park at Salt River Bay, jointly managed by the National Park Service and the U.S. Virgin Islands government, on the site of the 1493 encounter with Columbus. Inside are the largest remaining mangrove forests in the Virgin Islands, coral reefs, a submarine canyon and a masonry tower of brick and coral block built in the 1790s. Visitors dive, snorkel, kayak and hike.

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