St. Thomas Virgin Islands Historic Blackbeard's Castle Tower and grounds, Charlotte Amalie, Thomas USVI

Welcome to Blackbeard's Tower Castle and grounds

Blackbeard's Castle Tower stands majestically behind the beautiful tower gates.
Perfect for you to capture this view and so much more with your camera!

Today the Castle grounds have been enhanced with one of the largest collections of bronze pirate statues!

Above: Blackbeard welcomes you to the Tower !
Below: One statue stands guard over the historic cannons that lay silent in the shadow of the great Pirate Tower.

Below: Blackbeard's Castle grounds provide excellent views of the Charlotte Amalie harbour - exactly what the priates needed!

The bronze sculpture of the historic Three Queens shown below
has been placed in Blackbeard's Castle gardens.
Set in bronze, Queen Mary, Queen Agnes and Queen Josiah - who on Oct. 1, 1878, led laborers in setting fire to half of Frederiksted on St. Croix in a successful demand for better wages and working conditions. Felipe Ayala, assistant Virgin Islands Inns curator noted that Josiah is also known as "Bottom Belly. " The sculpture, made by famed Richard Hallier, shows the women standing with arms raised, holding a machete, jug of oil and flambeaux as water from a fountain made out of the island's blue bit stone cascades over their backs." This sculpture commissioned by the St. Thomas Historical Trust in partnership with Circa 1675 and Virgin Islands Inns.