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The Courthouse in Philipsburg was built in 1793 as the home of Captain John Philips, a Scotsman in the Dutch Navy who founded the town in 1763. A Dutch flag flew because this was still a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Sint Maarten's own flag flew on the right. We liked the pineapple on top of the courthouse.