Liever Marches Bay

Liever Marches Bay is a shallow bight on the north shore of the island of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands, just east of Brown Bay, towards the eastern end of the island. It has a 450 feet (140 m) shingle beach.

Historic district
Liever Marches Bay Historic District
LocationEast of Brown Bay on St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands
Coordinates18°21′16″N 64°42′04″W
Area4 acres (1.6 ha)
MPSVirgin Islands National Park MRA
NRHP reference No.81000087[1]
Added to NRHPJuly 23, 1981

Liever Marches Bay Historic District, east of Brown Bay on the island of Saint John, Virgin Islands, is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981. The listing included three contributing sites.[1]

It includes all of a smallish triangular flat area behind the beach. It includes ruins of an abattoir which probably served cattle-farming in the Brown Bay plantation and other plantation areas which had completely converted away from sugar cane or other more intensive agriculture.[2]

It also includes ruins two water wells with drinking troughs.[2]

It is located in the Central area(?) in Virgin Islands National Park.

Area: Brown Bay, VI Date added: July 23, 1981 Other names: NR Control Nos. PH050865;053177870;05177867;053177911 Historic function: Industry/processing/extraction; Agriculture/subsistence Historic subfunction: Processing; Processing; Manufacturing Facility Criteria: event, information potential

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References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Liever Marches Bay Historic District". National Park Service. Retrieved May 16, 2019. With accompanying three photos from 1976


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