The Timber Store

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The Timber Store is a former timber warehouse in the South African city ​​of Plettenberg Bay . The building made of quarry stones served the Dutch East India Company (VOC) from 1788 as a transshipment point for logging in the forests around Plettenberg Bay. Today the camp is only preserved as a ruin.

history

As early as 1778, the governor of the Dutch Cape Colony , Baron Joachim van Plettenberg , recommended that the wooded areas around Plettenberg Bay be used for timber exports. Only his successor van Graaff implemented these plans.

In December 1786, the Dutch East India Company commissioned Johann Jacob Jerling, who resided in the Cape Colony, to build a large timber warehouse above the beach for a sum of 15,000 guilders. Finally, in August 1788, the first cargo of wood was shipped with the ship De Meermin under Captain François Duminy.