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Date: 1863 Type: Farmhouse Status: Extant   Click to view large map Coordinates: 26°10'55.99" S 28°05'26.90" E Alt: 1674m

Transcription of Blue Plaque: JOHANNESBURG CULTURAL LEGACY BEZUIDENHOUT FARMHOUSE Built by Voortrekker Barend Viljoen and his wife Judith in 1852 as a simple rectangle, the house became the property of their son-in-law Frederik Jacobus Bezuidenhout, in 1863. The bay window was added in the 1890s, and a north wing in 1910. His son lived here until he sold the farmstead to the City for a park in 1949 During the Anglo-Boer War the British used the farmstead with its grazing as a remount camp at which horses were acclimatised JOHANNESBURG HERITAGE