Jossie Gut Historic District

W of Coral Bay off Center Line Rd., Reef Bay, Virgin Islands. County/parish: St. John.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places July 23, 1981. NRIS 81000086.

Part of Virgin Islands National Park MRA (NRIS 64000886).

4 contributing sites. 2 contributing structures.

Also known as:

  • H-14,1
  • H-14,2
  • H-14,3
  • H-14,4
  • H-14,5
  • H-14,6
  • NR Control Nos. PH

From Wikipedia:

Jossie Gut Historic District

The Jossie Gut Historic District, in Reef Bay Valley / Reef Bay, Virgin Islands, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981. The listing included two contributing structures and four contributing sites. It is included in Virgin Islands National Park. It is located west of Coral Bay off Center Line Road, in the Central area of the park. It includes remains of a horsemill.

It was a sugar plantation and factory owned and operated from 1820 to his death in 1862 by Hans Henrik Berg, who was Governor of St. Thomas, St. John in 1848 and again in 1853–1862.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/131518835