History of Marienburg

railway in Suriname. On 23 October 1882, the sugar factory opened. One of the plantations dropped out, and the remaining production was not worthwhile. The NHM bought the plantations to keep the vast sugar running. On Mariënburg itself were also sugarcane planted.

The NHM took Javanese contract workers from the then Dutch East Indies. The first Javanese arrived on August 9, 1890 in Paramaribo and were brought thence to Mariënburg. Indians of British India also worked on Mariënburg. On July 2, 1902 a strike broke out among them because the NHM paid very low wages. On July 29, director James Mavor was chased by the workers and killed. The same day arrived a detachment of the Colonial Army at Mariënburg. On July 30, people were arrested, after angry workers marched to the office. When there was shot at mutinous workers there were 17 deaths and 39 wounded. Seven of the injured succumbed later. In memory of the uprising was vice president Ramdien Sardjoe on Sunday, July 30, 2006 at Mariënburg unveiled a monument at the initiative of the Fallen Heroes Foundation 1902.

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