Christiansted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
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| Wayne James (left), President of the Homeward Bound Foundation, recently traveled to Copenhagen, Denmark for the purpose of receiving historical documents and images previously unavailable for public review. The materials relate to Estate Bethlehem in St.Croix and have been in the private archives of the Lachmann famiy of Scandinavia since the early 1900's. Here he discusses the material with Patricia Abbott, Library Technician in the Caribbean Collection where the materials were put on public display National Library Week. The display will continue until further notice. "Established as a Danish Plantation, as early as 1736 and located in the center of St. Croix, it is one of the island's largest and most renowned sugar estates, having impacted the lives of thousands of Crucians during its 230 years as an active plantation", according to a St.Croix Avis 3-4/2002 news release. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||