It is located about 4.5 miles (7.2km) west of Charlotte Amalie, on the southern shoreline of Saint Thomas, about 800 yards (730m) inland from Perseverance Bay.
The earliest available record shows it was owned by a Mrs. Mary Fogerty in 1811.[2]
It includes a T-shaped one-story sugar factory building built upon a high cellar, with its larger section being about 29 by 73.5 feet (8.8m ×22.4m) in dimension. It once had a timber hipped roof. It includes Classical Revival details.[2]