24pp. Softcover binding. Several monochrome photographs. Condition: Very good. Slight rubbing to covers, slight stain to front cover, previous seller’s label to inside of front cover. Text and photos are clean. Well bound.
From https://hiltonvillage.co.za/hilton-history/10-the-story-of-sweetwaters-winterskloof: In pre-historic times, the Stone Age hunter-gatherer San people hunted varieties of buck and wildebeest in the nearby Mgeni valley gorge, there having been a number of pre-historic camp sites found in the vicinity. It is even suggested that elephant tracks might in earlier times have been identified in the lower Dorpspruit catchment area, as fossilised footprints were claimed to have been found near to the old Voortrekker barn at Summerwood.
Most certainly there is evidence of early wagon trails and archaeological remains as the various pioneer parties of 1836 - 1837 wove their precarious routes south-eastwards. There is evidence for example, of a number of encampment sites on the Hendrie farm at The Knoll, made by the early Dutch trekkers prior to their descent into the upper Msunduzi and Plessislaer meeting areas.
Various portions of the Winterskloof valley were awarded to British colonists and remaining Voortrekker pioneers. The farms Groenekloof (2955 acres) and the farms St Michael's Mount (885 acres) as well as St George's Mount (662 acres) were prominent in this area and formed the nuclei for future sub division and habitation.
Size: 8vo (20,5 x 14,7cm)
Pietermaritzburg: Teeanem Printers, Undated
- Overall Condition: Very Good
- Size: 8vo
