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Charlotte Amalie Historic District

The Charlotte Amalie Historic District in Charlotte Amalie in Saint Thomas, U.S.

Charlotte Amalie Historic District
Charlotte Amalie Historic District · Wikimedia Commons
The place

The Charlotte Amalie Historic District in Charlotte Amalie in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands is a 165.3 acres (0.669 km2) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Charlotte Amalie Historic District

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Virgin Islands National Park

    The Virgin Islands National Park is a national park of the United States preserving about 60% of the land area of Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands, as well as more than 5,500 acres of adjacent ocean, and nearly all of Hassel Island, just off the Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas harbor. The park is well known for scuba diving and snorkeling, and has miles of hiking trails through the tropical rainforest.

    1.9 km · 14,700 acres in St. John, Virgin Islands (US) managed by the National Park Service · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Diocese of Saint Thomas in the Virgin Islands

    The Diocese of Saint Thomas in the Virgin Islands is a diocese of the Catholic Church for the U.S. Virgin Islands. It is the only suffragan diocese of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Washington.

    700 m · diocese of the Catholic Church in the U.S. Virgin Islands · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Blackbeard's Castle

    Blackbeard's Castle is one of five National Historic Landmarks in the U.S. Virgin Islands. It is located in the city of Charlotte Amalie, on the island of St.

    300 m · National Historic Landmark in Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St. Thomas Synagogue

    St. Thomas Synagogue, officially Congregation Beracha Veshalom Oogemiluth Hasadim or The Hebrew Congregation of St.

    300 m · historic religious building in Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul in Saint Thomas

    Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral is a historic Catholic church in the United States Virgin Islands. It is the mother church and seat of the Diocese of Saint Thomas.

    700 m · church in U.S. Virgin Islands, United States · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Addelita Cancryn Junior High School Ground

    The Addelita Cancryn Junior High School Ground was a cricket ground located in Charlotte Amalie, the capital of the United States Virgin Islands. The ground was part of the Addelita Cancryn Junior High School.

    1.9 km · cricket ground in United States Virgin Islands · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Fort Willoughby

    Fort Willoughby is a historic fort on Hassel Island in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The fort was built in 1777-1780 by the Danish, who originally named it Prince Frederik's Battery.

    2.1 km · historic military fort on Hassel Island, U.S. Virgin Islands · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    St. Anne Chapel, Frenchtown

    The St. Anne Chapel is a Catholic chapel in Frenchtown, Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, in the Diocese of St.

    1.4 km · church in United States Virgin Islands, United States · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Nur Mosque

    The Nur Mosque is a mosque in Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, a dependent territory of the United States.

    1.7 km · mosque in Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas, United States Virgin Islands · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Cathedral Church of All Saints

    The Cathedral Church of All Saints is an Episcopal cathedral in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, United States.

    100 m · cathedral church in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, U.S.V.I. · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Charlotte Amalie Historic District

Airports
Cyril E. King (STT), 5 km · Terrance B. Lettsome (EIS), 43 km · Luis Munoz Marin (SJU), 113 km
Stations
Charlotte Amalie Harbor Seaplane Base, 1.2 km
  • Beef Island → Charlotte Amalie Historic District
    44 km · quickest by ferry, 3h 28m · $30–77
  • San Juan → Charlotte Amalie Historic District
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Sint Maarten → Charlotte Amalie Historic District
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Charlotte Amalie Historic District

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Charlotte Amalie Historic District. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inIsland Lynx Ferry, next to Seaplane Terminal, (340) 713-5969, [http://vinow.com/general_usvi/interisland_ferry/.
  • Get aroundBy Bus Tour Several tour operators offer professional tours to popular locations by air-conditioned bus.
  • Get aroundOften you will get directions such as "Turn left at the fork in the road, then right at the gas station." Ferries leave from Charlotte Amalie and Red Hook to other islands pretty much all day every couple of hours.
  • Get aroundThere are information booths along the waterfront where you can get a schedule for the local ferries and a ferry terminal near French Town for the longer distances (BVI etc).
  • Get aroundFor on-line schedules to plan your outing, try for getting around the USVI, and [http://www.virginislandsthisweek.com/st-thomas/transportation/ferry-schedules.html for reaching the British Virgin Islands.

From Wikivoyage: Saint Thomas, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    34 km
  2. 02
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    59 km
  3. 03
    SabaNL

    8 ways of moving, 22 sources

    196 km
  4. 04
    NevisKN

    8 ways of moving, 15 sources

    279 km
  5. 05
    GeorgetownGY

    12 ways of moving, 39 sources

    1,478 km

If you know how people move in Charlotte Amalie Historic District – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Charlotte Amalie Historic District

  • Charlotte Amaliecapital and largest city of the United States Virgin Islands2 km
  • Charlotte Amalie Westhuman settlement in United States Virgin Islands, United States of America2 km
  • Frenchtownhuman settlement in United States Virgin Islands, United States of America1.3 km
  • Cowell Battery, United States Virgin Islandshuman settlement in United States Virgin Islands, United States of America2.1 km
  • Mandalhuman settlement in United States Virgin Islands, United States of America3.7 km
  • Northsidesub-district of the United States Virgin Islands1.8 km