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Fraserburg
Fraserburg,
together with Williston and Sutherland, forms part of the Karoo Highland
Municipality.
The
Gansfontein palaeo-surface,
discovered in 1968, is one of the
most clear ever discovered in the Karoo. Karoo fossils are famous for
providing the most complete evolutionary
record in the world,
documenting the change from reptile to mammal. Tracks of (amongst others)
a Dinosephaliėr/Bradysaurus may be seen.
Anglo-Boer
War mass grave, De Vlei, where
nine British soldiers lie buried. They
were killed by a Boer commando in April 1902, when they off-saddled to
rest a while. In the town cemetery are also the graves of three soldiers,
who perished in Oukloof
Pass during a skirmish
with Boers who would not honour the peace declaration.
Meyburg
Street. The Pepper-pot
: This six-sided structure,
unique in South Africa, has become the symbol of Fraserburg. It was built
by Adam Jacobs in 1861. The bell was rung whenever fire broke out, as well as serving
as the evening curfew bell, rung at nine p.m. when all Coloureds were
expected to be out of the town. Even after the curfew was no longer
required, the bell continued
to be rung at this time until
the 1950s.
AG
Visser and his wife, Lettie
A great drought in 1877 forced the parents of AG Visser to leave their family farm in Carnarvon,
and seek alternative grazing for their animals. They trekked to the
farm Zaaifontein in the Fraserburg district.
Because there were too many young people in the homestead, AG Visser was
born in a tent, prepared especially for that purpose, under a pear tree.
His epitaph, inscribed on an open marble book, is a quotation from
a poem dedicated to his late wife, Lettie:
Goddank vir jou. (God be thanked for you)
Kerkplaas
The ruins of the small church built by the Rev J J Kicherer
regarded as the first
mission station in the
north-west Karoo as well as
those of the home of Willem Frederik Krugel,
may still be seen. The
latter was banned from Graaff-Reinet because of his participation in the
Slagtersnek Rebellion in 1815.
Waterfall
in Theekloof. When Fraserburg was first established, there were only
three roads leading down from the plateau. These were Oukloof Pass in the
direction of Beaufort West; Komsberg
Pass to the Little Roggeveld, and the Posje Pass
which, according to tradition, followed the post coach route to
Aberdeen. The road to
Amandelboom was built in 1874. Theekloof was surveyed by Thomas Bain in
1879.
The name
Theekloof is derived
from the tea which was
made from mistletoe
(Viscum
rotundifolium) growing on
the Karee trees in the kloof. Again according to tradition, a bridegroom
on his way to his wedding in Oudtshoorn, and driving a coach and four,
pitched headlong down the kloof during a cloudburst when the horses shied
at the mass of water in front of them.
For further info: Karoo Highland
Info Centre, tel. 023-5711265
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