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Divers information on the romantic history of St. Croix / by Florence Lewisohn.

By:

Lewisohn, Florence [author.]

Series: Ralph deChabert Virgin Islands/Caribbean Collection[Christiansted, U.S.Virgin Islands] : St. Croix Landmarks Society, [1964] 1964Edition: Second editionDescription: 71 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

History.

Additional physical formats: Divers information on the romantic history of St. Croix.DDC classification:

972.972

LOC classification:

F2096 .L4 1964

Available additional physical forms:

Also issued online.

Contents:

Highlights of history -- The Sugar Cane Plant -- The age of opulence -- Fortune or folly -- St. Croix;s sugar mills -- How sugar was made -- Molasses to rum to planter's punch -- Ye olde rum drinks -- Rum & revolution -- A Hamilton on St. Croix -- Century of change -- Some folk & other lore -- The Christiansted Historic Site -- St. Croix Landmarks Society -- Appendix.

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"Containing much information of value to the reader about Whim Greathouse & Old Plantation Days; the Story of Sugar & Rum; description of life on a Cruzan Plantation; the story of the Sugar Cane Plant; Alexander Hamilton's account of a terrible Hurricane; & the story of our famous Governor, Peter von Sholten. Also the connection between Rum and the American Revolution.--Title page.