ANNABERG HISTORIC TRAIL -

FIRING TUNNELS - Here slaves fed magas to the fire to heat the boiling bench (No. 7). At one time a chimney was located near this post to provide the draft to pull the fire into tunnels under the coppers.

OX Pound - though we call it the ox pound, mules were most commonly used, but there were also horses, donkeys and yes, oxen. This stone enclosure that held the animals measures about 50 x 100 feet.
Our picture of Annaberg's history is incomplete. We do know that, when Oxholm mapped the island in 1780, the owners were Ben Lind and a person named Jonah, or Jones. In 1786 Lind sold both the Annaberg and Mary Point Estates (518 acres) to Robert Milner. Milner later sold to Thomas Sheen, the Danish Colonial Adjutant. At an auction in 1827, Annaberg went to Hans Henrik Berg. Then followed a succession of owners  some operated Annaberg as a cattle farm  until it became part of Virgin Islands National Park in 1956.