With 22.000 people living on this magnificent island, Sint Eustatius was the Golden Rock of the Caribbean. A Dutch Freeport that welcomed all nations to do their trading and store cargo. During this time raw cotton was plucked and shipped to Statia for refinement. The dark seeds needed to be removed from the white in order to process it and make fabrics. The process is called ginning and it was done on Sint Eustatius, as this island, had one of the few factories that could handle the process. For obvious reasons this factory was called......a Gin House.