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Christopher Columbus Arrives in USVI & BVI

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  • Sailing through in 1493 on his second trip to the New World, Columbus stopped at Salt River, St. Croix, to skirmish with the Carib Indians. The many islands he saw prompted him to name the archipelago after St. Ursula and the 11,000 Virgins.

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