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Town of the week - Jacobsdal─── 16:21 Fri, 11 Mar 2022
This week, our traveling sport's guy Aaron visits Jacobsdal.
Jacobsdal was a farm called Kalkfontein until the mid-1800’s, when Christoffel Jacobs established it as a tiny town. Today, it remains a small farming community, just 154 kilometres outside of Bloemfontein in the Free State, but its history and the surrounding landscapes give Jacobsdal a charm that is quite special. It is only 15 kilometres from the border of the Northern Cape Province. It is a small beautiful town on the Riet River. Its district boundaries date back to 1834 when the Cape Colony bargained with the Griqua Captain, Andries Waterboer and obtained municipal status in 1860. At that time, the Jacobsdal region was one of the largest districts in the Orange Free State republic (now the Free State Province).
Read more about Jacobsdal here.
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