The property known as Estate Niesky was purchased in 1755 by the Moravian Church in Charlotte Amalie, during the era when America's original Thirteen Colonies were still part of the British Empire.

Moravian Church bishop Nicolaus Zinzendorf directed Augustus Gottlieb Spangenberg to establish missions in the Netherlands Caribbean colonies.

[3] Records discovered during the United States National Register of Historic Places listings assessment give evidence that the original plantation church building was constructed in 1771.

[4] During this era, the Danish West India Company introduced the practice of using enslaved persons to work the sugar plantations.

The remains of stone walls dividing the site into planting plots are all that survive from the original 1771 plantation, which had been enlarged from the 1755 property.