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    Homestead Housing – Bethlehem, St. Croix VI

    Date added: June 5, 2017; Modified: June 6, 2017

    The homestead housing in Bethlehem, St. Croix was built by the Virgin Islands Company with the aid of PWA funding. A partnership program between the Government of the United States and the people of the Virgin Islands, the Virgin Islands… read more

    Estates Colquhoun/Mount Pleasant Homestead Communities – St. Croix VI

    Date added: May 15, 2017; Modified: June 5, 2017

    The Works Progress Administration and the Work Projects Administration established, maintained, and operated homestead communities at Estates Colquhoun and Mount Pleasant on St. Croix. The work was funded by a $18,000 emergency relief grant (1933-1940) to the Government of the Virgin… read more

    Homestead Housing – Frederiksted, St. Croix VI

    Date added: June 4, 2017; Modified: June 5, 2017

    A homestead housing program funded with the aid of a $45,000 grant from the Housing Commission and a $242,000 loan from Subsistence Homesteads Corporation, sought to improve housing conditions on the Virgin Islands. The program included housing on farm land… read more

    Homestead Housing – St. Thomas VI

    Date added: June 4, 2017

    A homestead housing program funded with the aid of a $45,000 grant from the Housing Commission and a $242,000 loan from Subsistence Homesteads Corporation, sought to improve housing conditions on the Virgin Islands. The program included housing on farm land… read more

    Sandy Point Landscaping – St. Croix VI

    Date added: May 15, 2017; Modified: June 1, 2017

    In St. Croix, the Civilian Conservation Corps worked on the development of Federally owned land at Sandy Point. The 1938 Annual Report of the Governor of the Virgin Islands mentions that the land “is being cleared of brush and planted in coconuts,… read more

    La Grande Princesse Homestead Community – St. Croix VI

    Date added: May 15, 2017; Modified: June 1, 2017

    The Works Progress Administration and the Work Projects Administration established, maintained, and operated homestead communities at Estate La Grande Princesse on St. Croix. The work was funded by a $28,000 emergency relief grant (1933-1940) to the Government of the Virgin Islands…. read more

    Estate Whim Homestead Community – Frederiksted, St. Croix VI

    Date added: May 15, 2017; Modified: June 1, 2017

    The Works Progress Administration and the Work Projects Administration established, maintained, and operated homestead communities at Estate Whim on St. Croix. The work was funded by a $46,000 emergency relief grant (1933-1940) to the Government of the Virgin Islands. The Estate Whim plantation spread… read more

    Estate Saint John Homestead Community – St. Croix VI

    Date added: May 15, 2017; Modified: June 1, 2017

    The Works Progress Administration and the Work Projects Administration established, maintained, and operated homestead communities at Estate Saint John on St. Croix. The work was funded by a $22,000 emergency relief grant (1933-1940) to the Government of the Virgin Islands. The… read more

    Health Clinic – St. John VI

    Date added: May 6, 2017; Modified: May 31, 2017

    The National Youth Administration built the only health clinic on St. John island, to serve its 800 inhabitants.

    H. H. Berg Housing Development – St. Thomas VI

    Date added: May 8, 2017; Modified: May 31, 2017

    “The P. W. A. made an allotment of funds for the erection of low-rent housing in the Virgin Islands sufficient to allow for the development of three such projects. These funds financed the following: (a) Bassin Triangle erected on a… read more

    CCC Senior Camp – St. John VI

    Date added: May 11, 2017; Modified: May 31, 2017

    The Annual Report of the Governor of the Virgin Islands for 1938 describes the establishment of new camp facilities on St. John: “During the year, a side camp was established on the island of St. John, where there are now 26 persons enrolled in… read more

    CCC Camps – St. Thomas VI

    Date added: May 11, 2017; Modified: May 31, 2017

    On January 29, 1935, the Emergency Conservation Work was inaugurated on the Virgin Islands and the CCC was established along with two camps. The CCC built camp facilities across the islands, on St. Thomas, St. Croix, and St. John. The Annual Report… read more

    Lindbergh Bay Municipal Beach House – St. Thomas VI

    Date added: May 13, 2017; Modified: May 31, 2017

    “Also with Public Works Administration funds, a beach house is being constructed at the government-owned Lindbergh Bay beach, one of the best in the world, where also golf will be available on the links on which Colonel Lindbergh landed his… read more