Columbus Landing Site at Salt River Point

• The beach at Salt River Point (also known as Columbus Landing) is recognized as the site where members of Columbus’s second voyage landed on November 14, 1493

Fort Sale

• Construction of Fort Salé was started by the British in 1641 and eventually finished by the Dutch in 1642, making the earthwork one of the oldest extant European fortifications in the New World.

Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve

• Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands preserves, protects, studies, and interprets internationally significant historical and cultural sites that encompass more than 2,000 years and human use of the diverse tropical, marine, and terrestrial ecosystems that comprise the Salt River watershed.

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