
08/19/2025
It’s official: Professor Olasee Davis’s decades-long effort to preserve Maroon Country on St. Croix as part of the U.S. Virgin Islands’ Territorial Park system is now a reality following the purchase of some 2,386 acres of undeveloped forested and coastal land that was under threat of development. The area is so named for the thousands of enslaved laborers from Africa who sought self-liberation by fleeing plantation life and seeking refuge in the remote, inaccessible areas that the Maroon Sanctuary Territorial Park will now protect. Government House confirmed Monday that an official announcement will come later this week.
Read Davis's op-ed now:
https://stthomassource.com/content/2025/08/18/op-ed-at-long-last-st-croixs-sacred-maroon-country-now-a-territorial-park/