Estate Carolina Sugar Plantation Explained

Estate Carolina Sugar Plantation
Coordinates:	18.3494°N -64.7186°W
Built:	1717, 1725, 1733
Added:	July 19, 1976
Area:	117acres
Refnum:	76002217

The Estate Carolina Sugar Plantation near Coral Bay on Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands is a historic sugar plantation and later rum distillery.

The sugar plantation for sugar cane 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 in 1976. The listing included eight contributing sites on a 183acres property.

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.

Today

The plantation's ruins include: ^[1]

• 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.

Notes and References

1. Web site: [{{NRHP url|id=76002217}} National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Estate Carolina Sugar Plantation ]. National Park Service. Samuel N. Stokes, Russell Wright, Annie Hillary, and Margaret Praukauer . May 16, 1976 . June 1, 2017. With .