Estate Butler's Bay
Estate Butler's Bay | |
 Watercolour of Butler's Bay by Frederik von Scholten, 1830 | |
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| Nearest city | Frederiksted, Virgin Islands |
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| Area | 13.6 acres (5.5 ha) |
| Built | 1764 |
| NRHP reference No. | 78002722[1] |
| Added to NRHP | August 25, 1978 |
Estate Butler's Bay, on the island of Saint Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands, was established as a sugar plantation by 1764. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The listing included five contributing buildings, a contributing structure, and five contributing sites.[1]
Background
[edit | edit source]It is located on the west coast of the island, about 2.1 miles (3.4 km) north of Frederiksted. It has also been known as Bottler's Bay.[2]
Surviving are "two great houses, three slave quarter buildings, a cookhouse, a sugar factory, stables, an overseer's house and a number of accessory structures." A wind-powered mill to crush sugar cane has been modified and incorporated into a modern house, and is not part of the listing. More than 80 slaves worked on the plantation.[2]
The earliest of the two great houses is a two-story building, 56 by 63 feet (17 m × 19 m) in plan, with six bays by seven bays. It has a corrugated tin hipped roof which replaced the similar roof lost in an 1828 hurricane.[2]
References
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[edit | edit source]- Error creating thumbnail: File missing Media related to Lua error in Module:Commons_link at line 62: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). at Wikimedia Commons
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