12 Facts About Saint Croix

Saint Croix is an island in the Caribbean Sea, and a county and constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands, an unincorporated territory of the United States.

St Saint Croix is the largest of the islands in the territory, while the capital Charlotte Amalie is located on St Thomas.

St Saint Croix's nickname is "Twin City", for its two towns, Frederiksted on the western end and Christiansted on the northeast part of the island.

Those considered to be the native Crucians of Saint Croix are persons who can trace their ancestry to the era prior to U S Virgin Islands acquisition of American citizenship in 1927.

For example, in informal situations, many Puerto Ricans in Saint Croix speak a unique Spanglish-like combination of Puerto Rican Spanish and the local Crucian Creole English.

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In that period, agriculture declined as the major industry in Saint Croix and was replaced by tourism, alumina production, and oil refining.

The demand for imported labor in Saint Croix was exacerbated by the fact that many ancestral native Crucians, having acquired American citizenship several decades earlier, migrated to the mainland United States to pursue educational and career opportunities.

Down islanders and their Saint Croix-born offspring form the majority of Saint Croix's middle class, which has dwindled in size since the 2008 global recession.

Spanish is spoken by migrants from Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic and their St Saint Croix-born offspring, and various French creoles are spoken by St Lucian, Dominican, and Haitian immigrants.

Saint Croix was once an agricultural powerhouse in the Caribbean, but this period ended with the rapid industrialization of the island's economy in the 1960s.

Saint Croix was home to HOVENSA, one of the world's largest oil refineries.

Saint Croix is home to the Cruzan Rum Distillery, makers of Cruzan Rum, a brand of Beam Suntory, Inc The Cruzan Rum Distillery was founded in 1760 as Estate Diamond, and for many years used locally grown sugar cane to produce a single "dark"-style rum.