Everything about Colesberg totally explained
Colesberg is a
South African town in the
Northern Cape and on the
main road from
Cape Town to
Johannesburg. Founded in
1830 on an abandoned station of the
London Missionary Society, it was named after Sir
Galbraith Lowry Cole, then Governor of the
Cape Colony. The site of the town lay on one of the well-travelled routes used by traders, hunters and explorers to gain access to the interior. Towerberg or Coleskop is a prominent hill near the town and a
landmark easily seen from a distance by travellers.
The town boasts many buildings that were built in a blend of
Cape Dutch and
Georgian architecture with ceilings of reed, and
yellowwood timbers, and others that display a range of designs reflecting the changes of
19th century building. Originally plots were pegged out and sold on the site of the town to fund the building of the
Dutch Reformed church.
Colesberg saw a large number of battles and skirmishes during the second
Anglo-Boer War, and the Colesberg Garden of Remembrance is located just outside the town. Farming in the area is dedicated almost entirely to
horses and
merino sheep, while the
ostrich-feather boom of the early 1900s, which left many farmers rich, is long forgotten. The Doornkloof Nature Reserve is located near Colesberg on the confluence of the
Orange and Seekoei Rivers.
A number of
1820 Settlers established farms in the Colesberg district. Outnumbered as a religious group, some attended the
Methodist Church and others the
Dutch Reformed Church, where services in
English were specially held for them. Anglican officials in Cape Town appointed Dr CEH Orpen as Rector and the first services were conducted in the Court House and the London Mission Chapel, which became known as St Stephen's Church. In 1852 the construction of the Anglican Christ Church was started, having been designed by
Sophy Gray, wife of the Cape Town bishop
Robert Gray.
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