6th Precinct: ORANJEZICHT FARMSTEAD - Reclaim Camissa - Citizen Project (sitios de interés)
Descripción del sitio
HOMESTEAD PARK
A derelict park and left-over bowling green on the corner of Upper Orange Street and Sidmouth Avenue: The original Oranjezicht Farmstead (the one time largest farm in the Upper Table Valley) was occupied by the van Breda family for 7 generations. (The van Breda family burial tomb still exists in Montrose Avenue).
A derelict park and left-over bowling green on the corner of Upper Orange Street and Sidmouth Avenue: The original Oranjezicht Farmstead (the one time largest farm in the Upper Table Valley) was occupied by the van Breda family for 7 generations. (The van Breda family burial tomb still exists in Montrose Avenue).
Pressured to sell off pieces of the old farmstead due to the water needs of the expanding settlement (12 of the city bowl's artesian springs issued on this land), the last remaining land and homestead only sold in 1947, to the City of Cape Town. Despite ideas at the time to turn the house into a museum, it was demolished in 1957.
Remnants in the park, include some old werf walls, a gate pillar, Islamic (possibly slave) graves, an outbuilding of c1800 and a belltower c1775, as well as the old spring (Stadsfontein or Main Spring, as it became known) and its covering vault, some old lei-water channels and other elements of civic hydrology.
More recently, it has become a community Park, and improvements are already visible there. It has fallen under the care of a civil society group - "The Oranjezicht Heritage Society".
(c) RECLAIM CAMISSA
Remnants in the park, include some old werf walls, a gate pillar, Islamic (possibly slave) graves, an outbuilding of c1800 and a belltower c1775, as well as the old spring (Stadsfontein or Main Spring, as it became known) and its covering vault, some old lei-water channels and other elements of civic hydrology.
More recently, it has become a community Park, and improvements are already visible there. It has fallen under the care of a civil society group - "The Oranjezicht Heritage Society".
(c) RECLAIM CAMISSA