Virgin Islands Historic Blogs

People dance, fish, eat and have a great time at the Bastille Day Celebrations on St. Thomas. Bastille Day, celebrated on July 14th, is the national holiday of France. It is the equivalent of America’s July 4th Independence Day holiday. Bastille Day is celebrated on July 14th because on this day in 1789 the people […]

On the morning of May 15, 2009, the 42-foot Blast, one of Cruz Bay Watersports’ fleet of custom vessels, departed on a historical journey. The destination was Lameshur Bay, St. John. The reunion of the guests on the Blast was to commemorate the Atlantis Seafloor Colony Project; undersea experiments that took place in 1969 and […]

New U.S. coinage will honor the District of Columbia and United States Territories including the U.S. Virgin Islands. They are a follow-up on the 50 State Quarters Program; a ten-year program started in 1999 that will end in late 2008 with the release of the Hawaii’s commemorative quarter. “The 50 State Quarters® Program has been […]

Trunk Bay is a beautiful beach on the north shore of St. John. A popular place for residents and visitors and one of the most photographed beaches on the island. It is frequently used to represent St. John and the U.S. Virgin Islands National Park in articles and advertisements, and now in a USPS postage […]