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Fraserburg

Fraserburg Accommodation, Camping & Holiday Resorts

About Fraserburg

• Fraserburg lies on a high plateau north of the Nuweveld Mountains
• Named after a Scottish cleric and immigrant, Rev Colin Fraser
• Fraserburg was founded in the West Nuweveld in 1851
• Bushmen and Signs of the Bushmen culture can still be found in the vicinity
• 1 260 m above sea level
• Nearest Railway station is Leeu Gamka on the N1
• Fraserburg is connected with Leeu Gamka by a tarred road of 114 km.
• Municipality - Karoo Hoogland Local Municipality
• District Municipality - Namakwa District Municipality

Fraserburg Attractions/Events

Fraserburg History

In 1851 it was decided to start a new Dutch Reformed Parish for the growing number of stock farmers in the area. The site of this new parish was the farm Rietfontein. In the same year the new village was surveyed and named Fraserburg in honor of Reverend Colin Fraser, the father of the wife of the Free State’s President, MT Steyn. Of particular note in this town is the Peperbus - a six sided building with one door and one window built in 1861. It was designed as an office by the Reverend Bamberger and has been used as such by the Municipality Market Master, the Magistrate and the Church. Also of interest in Fraserburg are the many well-preserved Victorian-style houses with their elaborate wrought iron ornamentation, which may be found up the side streets.

Fraserburg Museums, Monuments and places of interest

• Corbelled House - On the farm Driefontein
• De Postjes Trail - Fossilised footprints are found in the area
• Mail Coach Pass - Decline 300 metres over less than a kilometer
• Museum - In the Old Rectory, it houses a fossil exhibition
• Peperbus(Pepperbox) - Six-sided Peperbus was built in 1861
• Powder Magazine Depot - Used by British forces during the Anglo-Boer War
• Anglican Church - Completed in 1870
• Kerkplaas - Ruins of the oldest Mission Station in the North West
• Monument - The grave of Reverend P.D. Rossouw next to the Dutch Reformed Church

Fraserburg Tourism

Last updated on 2011/12/18

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