US barters for Alexander Hamilton's home

The U.S. government is bartering for Alexander Hamilton's boyhood home — offering land to build a public high school in return for control of the property owned by the U.S. Virgin Islands.

U.S. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne proposed the deal during a visit Thursday to the Virgin Islands to announce environmental preservation grants.

Hamilton's boyhood home is located on the island of St. Croix. The majority of land on St. John, where officials want to build the school, is owned by the National Park Service.