Somerset East, Eastern Cape

Founded: 1825

Named after Lord Charles Somerset (1767 – 1831) who was the Governor of the Cape Colony from 1814 to 1826.

 


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List of structures:

All Saints Anglican Church: 1855.
Barclays Bank - now First National Bank: 1910.
Bellvue Seminary: n.d..
Gill College: 1869.
Gill College, Gall Hall: n.d..
Hope Congregational Church (now Afrikaanse Protestante Kerk): 1844.
Market Building: 1930s.
Municipal Swimming Pool: 1940.
Museum : Drostdy : NG Pastorie: c1820.
Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk: 1870.
Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerksaal - Hall: 1971.
Post Office: 1920.
Post Office: 1966.
Presbyterian Church: n.d..
Road Bridge - Little Fish River: 1896-1897.
Road Bridge over Little Fish River: 1930.
Somerset East Hotel: n.d..
Standard Bank: n.d..
Town Hall: 1934.
Transfer Docking Station: n.d..
Volkskas Bank - Now ABSA: 1945.
Voortrekker Centenary Monument: 1938.
Walter Battiss Art Museum - Battiss Private Hotel - Old Officers' Mess: c1815.
War Memorial 1914-1918 and 1939-1945: n.d..
William Oates Memorial School: c1928.