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Photos taken in Christiansted

Scale House

Custom House

Steeple can be seen in background

Fort Christianvaern & bandstand

Part of the Fort from Queen and Queen Cross Streets

Protestant Cay and Hotel

Explanation of where Columbus "landed" on island.
Did not set camera on text setting, thus not clear!

Christian "Shan" Hendricks Market on Company Street,
downtown Christiansted

The colorful galleries, King Street!

Lord God of Sabaoth Lutheran Church, King Street.

More Photos of Frederiksed

Fort, Custom House and bandstand.

The first ship to visit St. Croix in a long time, The Regatta, Oceania Cruise Line.

Fort Frederik

What do
you get
when you
bother an
eel that's
under a
rock on
the
shore?

It jumps
out of the
water and
bites you!
That's what
it did to
me!

The kitchen display at the Whim Museum

A portrait of Ludvig E. Harrigan on the side of a building in the housing
development named in his honor.

"Original" homes in Grove Place

Creque Dam

Mill in Two Brothers close to Percy Gardine Avenue

Look
closely.
The sun
is
shining
yet out
at sea it
is
cloudy
and
raining.
For a
while
it
looked
like
water
spouts.

A Beautiful Sunset !!

Back to Christiansted, May 2009

A close up of what's written on some of the explanations listed around the sites
around the park. See photos above.

This building was the third
stop in the local chain of
commerce. After conducting
business at the Scalehouse
and Guinea Company
Warehouse, merchants and
planters paid import and
export taxes to Danish
Customs officials here in
ground-floor offices.

Left - Back view of Customs House, fort and part of park. Right - House on Queen and Hospital Streets

Views of C'sted from Gallows (pronounced more like GALLIS) Bay. In photo at left, one can see fort at left
and Protestant Cay on right.

Conch shells sitting on dock

Businesses and homes in the
Gallows Bay area.

Sailboat leaving pier in Gallows Bay

This building was the first Danish
Lutheran church on the island - one
of the few government buildings not
directly involved in international trade.
From 1754 to 1831, the Steeple Building
was the embodiment of the Danish state
religion. All government administrators,
as well as the fort's garrison, were
required to worship there. Official
proclamations, such as the abolition
of the Danish slave trade, were read
from the pulpit.

Like the Scale House and Guinea
Company Warehouse, the Steeply
building evolved. Rather than undertake
costly repairs, in 1831 the Lutherans
bought the Dutch Reformed church on
King Street. There you can see the
original furnishings from the Steeple
Building: the altar, pulpit, chandeliers,
baptismal font, and governor's box.

See image below, under banner "Back to Christiansted, May
2009" for more information.