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Hillside
Magaliesburg district, Gauteng

Date:c1840
Type:Farmhouse
Status:Ruin

 


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Coordinates:
26°00'54.39" S 27°38'01.08" E Alt: 1586m

The farm Hillside belonged to the Scheepers family who started their new lives here in 1840. During the Anglo-Boer War the farmhouse was used as a field hospital which is the reason it was not burned down as part of Lord Kitchener’s Scorched Earth Policy.

(Extracted from the Facebook Entry by Annelise Naude Lange, Paolo Beninca and Freddie Hardman)