Fort Christiansvaern
Greene JA and Cissel WF. 1988. Fort Christiansvaern. Historic Furnishing Reports. Harpers Ferry Center
Fort Christiansvaern constitutes one feature of Christiansted National Historic Site at Christiansted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. Established as Virgin Islands National Historic Site on March 4, 1952, the park was redesignated as Christiansted National Historic Site on January 16, 1961. Besides Fort Christiansvaern, the several structures composing the park include the Old Danish Customs House, the Steeple Building, and the Scale House. All commemorate the years of colonial occupation and the sugar economy on St. Croix when Christiansted served as capital of the Danish West Indies in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Today the fort is the best preserved example of the several surviving colonial forts in the Virgin Islands. This report contains proposed furnishings for several rooms that will interpret the fort’s occupation and garrison life as it existed there during the mid-1800s.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Greene, Jerome; Cissel, William
- Date of Issue
- 1988
- Publisher
- Harpers Ferry Center
- Units
- CHRI , HIST
- Keywords
- Biography, Christiansted, Cultural Resources, Denmark, ehistory, Enlisted Men, Fort, furnishings, History, Military, St. Croix, Virgin Islands