Commewijne, Suriname's Plantation District

Monument to Javanese, Mariënburg

Hendrik, a Javanese former worker here, showing the monument dedicated to the first Javanese workers who landed in Suriname on 9 August 1890, in Mariënburg, a former sugarcane plantation, factory and village, situated in the district of Commewijne, east of Fort Nieuw Amsterdam. In 1745, Mariënburg was founded as a sugar plantation by Maria de la Jaille and became a coffee plantation in the 19th century. The factory closed in 1986.

Photo by Ludo Kuipers, Thu Jan 21, 2016
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