Map of the Spieringshoek plantation

Title Leupe: Plan en situatiekaart van de Plantagie Spieringshoek, gelegen in Beneden Commewyne.

This map shows the location of the Spriengshoek plantations.

This plantation cultivates coffee, bananas and arrowleaf elephant ears.

It is located next to the Commewijne River (bottom).

This map contains a legend: the letters a till u concern estates and the numbers 1 till 24 represent the different crops grown on the numerous lots.

For example, the house of residence is indicated through the letter ‘a’.

The letters ‘b’ and ‘c’ represent the annexes.

Building ‘e’ is a coffeebean storage.

The kitchengardens are indicated with the letter ‘s’. -The length and width of the buildings are noted at the bottom of the legend.

On the lots ranging from 1 to 19 chiefly coffee is grown, the lots 20 to 24 are cultivated with bananas and arrowleaf elephant ears.

Scale of 60 Rhineland chains = 480 'strepen'.