Salt River Bay
National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve
Salt River Bay
National Historical Park and
Ecological Preserve
The area, which encompasses all major cultural periods in the U.S. Virgin Islands. It is the only known site where members of the Columbus expedition set foot on what is now U.S. territory. The park contains the only ceremonial prehistoric ball court ever discovered in the lesser Antilles, village middens, and burial grounds. The area was a focal point of various European attempts to colonize the area during the post-Columbian period by the Spaniards, French, Dutch, English, and Danish. The site is marked by Fort Sale, a remaining earthworks fortification from the Dutch period of occupation.
Authorized Feb. 24.1992.
Acreage- 912, all nonfederal.