Lower Town is a strip of buildings just above sea level along the waterfront, which borders on the island's safest beach.

It is nestled between Quill & Boven National Park Neighborhoods of Oranjestad: • Golden Rock • Bay Brow The first colonist arrived between 1625 and 1629.

[5] Sint Eustatius produced sugar and cotton, but most importantly developed into a centre of the North American slave trade.

[8] The town's historical features also include a Dutch Reformed church built in 1755,[8] which is partly in ruins but still accessible (its tower can be climbed for long-distance views), various restored 18th-century merchants' residences – including the oldest one, the Gezaghebber House (former Lieutenant Governor's residence) on Kerkstraat – and restored wooden Caribbean-style houses.

[9] Oranjestad itself contains grocery stores, restaurants, bars, a library, schools, a clinic and the administrative offices of the government.