A $1 million in grant funds from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Humanities in Place program will help fund the redevelopment of Sunday Market Square as well as allow for sub-grants to be awarded to nonprofits engaged in keeping cultural traditions alive on St. Croix, according to a released statement from the St. Croix Foundation and reported by the VI Consortium in a recent article. Sunday Market Square holds deep cultural significance as one of the oldest, planned public squares under the U.S. flag. Located in downtown Christiansted, “it represents a unique history linked to Denmark’s colonization on the island of St. Croix from 1733 to 1917″ according to a statement by the foundation.
Read the full article on this and other projects that are part of this grant in this VI Consortium article.