Culture & History · St. John
Culture & History / St. John
Quarters of enslaved people, the sugar factory, the animal mill and the windmill still stand at Annaberg, looking out over the surrounding hillsides and Leinster Bay on St. John. Interpretation covers the global sugar market that drove slavery and colonialism in the Virgin Islands. The National Park Service also publishes 3D reconstructions of the structures through its Atlantic Slave Trade Project.
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Photo explorer / Annaberg Sugar Plantation Ruins
1 / 1 · The stone windmill tower of the Annaberg Sugar Plantation ruins on St. John, against green hills.
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One of the few sites on St. John where a plantation windmill still stands, a Danish colonial period ruin reached by the rough road that runs up to it.
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Taino people settled Cinnamon Bay before Danish colonists built a sugar plantation worked by enslaved Africans, and a half-mile boardwalk loop now runs through its ruins from the beach parking lot on St. John's North Shore Road. The one-mile Cinnamon Bay Trail climbs from east of the ruins to Centerline Road, with a 0.38-mile spur to the America Hill great house.
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Three miles down to the beach from the trailhead near mile marker 5 on Centerline Road, past Danish sugar plantation ruins, stone cattle-grazing walls, pre-Columbian Taino rock carvings and some of the oldest and tallest trees on St. John. NPS describes it as strenuous, with steep, uneven, and rocky terrain and a long uphill return; check current trail conditions directly with NPS before setting out.
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An original photography gallery at 505 Mongoose Junction in Cruz Bay, St. John, specializing in metal prints. Two St. John residents started it, and everything on show was shot by the owner and his father.
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