Estate Little Princess is a historic

plantation A plantation is an agricultural estate, generally centered on a plantation house, meant for farming that specializes in cash crops, usually mainly planted with a single crop, with perhaps ancillary areas for vegetables for eating and so on. The ...

site located northwest of

Christiansted Christiansted is the largest town on Saint Croix, one of the main islands composing the United States Virgin Islands, a territory of the United States of America. The town is named after King Christian VI of Denmark. History The town was founded ...

Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands Saint Croix; nl, Sint-Kruis; french: link=no, Sainte-Croix; Danish and no, Sankt Croix, Taino: ''Ay Ay'' ( ) is an island in the Caribbean Sea, and a county and constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI), an unincorpo ...

. It was first owned by governor

Frederik Moth Frederik Christian Hals von Moth (1694 – 12 August 1746) was a Danish merchant, nobleman, colonial administrator and planter who served as Governor-General of St. Thomas and St. John in the Danish West Indies from April 1724 - May 1727 then a ...

in 1738 and rests on 25 acres of land (from the original 200 acres). As of 2011 the estate is under ownership of

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and serves as headquarters for the Eastern Caribbean/Virgin Islands programs. The property has been turned into a nature preserve and historical tours are given as well. The site was listed on the

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on June 9, 1980. There are many buildings on the property, including a building that served as a Danish hospital and the

great house A great house is a large house or mansion with luxurious appointments and great retinues of indoor and outdoor staff. The term is used mainly historically, especially of properties at the turn of the 20th century, i.e., the late Victorian or ...

, which was built in the 1800s. Both have been partially restored. Estate Little Princess was primarily a sugar and rum factory hundreds of years ago. There are many ruins (such as a windmill and remnants of the factory) located on the grounds of the estate. In the great house, a small exhibition with photographs, maps and other documents tells the history of the estate. Access is via the minor road leading north-west from the intersection of VI75 (Northside road) and VI74 (Rattan road) 2km northwest of Christiansted. Plantation ruins estate little princess

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Sugar plantations in Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands Plantations in the Danish West Indies Houses in the United States Virgin Islands Plantation houses in the United States Nature Conservancy preserves Houses completed in 1749 Buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States Virgin Islands Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States Virgin Islands 1749 establishments in North America 1740s establishments in the Caribbean 1749 establishments in Denmark 18th century in the Danish West Indies {{VirginIslands-NRHP-stub

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