San Pedro Sarstoon
San Pedro Landing
Toledo
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Founded
1891?
Ended
1980 (89 years)?
History

Around 1891, Bernard Cramer’s son Herman established an estate on the Sarstoon River / Río Sarstún in the southwestern corner of the colony, which soon became the largest agricultural estate in southern British Honduras, producing all the coffee for the colony, as well as rubber, cocoa, and bananas.

Cramer’s estate employed a number of Q’eqchi’ Mayas who lived in and around a village known as San Pedro Sarstoon.[1]

Etymology and Location

On the 1980 DOS map a village is shown on the Savery Branch of the Sarstoon River / Río Sarstún by the name of San Pedro Landing. I suspect this is the same village.


1891
1980