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From: Keith Meintjes<>
Subject: Re: [SoAfricaHistory] Josephine Mill, Newlands-a Brief History,home ofthe Cape Town Hist Society
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 19:09:57 -0500
I was very interested to read this. Louwvliet and Questenburg are two of the
farms granted to the original free burghers by van Riebeeck. They came to be
farmed by Jan Broertje Louw, the Louw progenitor.
The farms were bordered on the east by what is now Campground Road extended by
Palmyra on the south end; On the west by the Liesbeeck River, or
approximately Main Road; The north border of Louwvliet is Dulwich and Dundee
streets; The south border of Questenburg is Stegman street; The border
between the farms is an east-west line lying just south of the WP Rugby field,
from where Main road crosses the Liesbeeck.
The story of Broertje and the establishment of (settler) farms in this area is
told in "The Louws of Louwvliet" by Jannie Louw and Lalie Malan (Balkema,
1984). Louwvliet and Questenburg were sold out of the Louw family on 28
September 1724.
Best wishes,
Keith
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From: Kammie <>
To: <>
Date: Monday, 16 December 2002 02:55 AM
Subject: [SoAfricaHistory] Josephine Mill, Newlands-a Brief History,home of
the Cape Town Hist Society
>Hi SA-HISTORY list participants
>
>FYI : Josephine Mill, Newlands-a Brief History, home of the Cape Town Hist
Society
>
>The Secretary of the Historical Society of Cape Town, Ms Shirley MILSS so
kindly forwarded me this extract for circulation ..........
>
>BRIEF HISTORY OF THE JOSEPHINE MILL, Home of the Cape Town Historical
Society[CTHS]
>
>In 1975, the Josephine Mill was given as a ruin to this Society by Myra
East. The Historical Society [of Cape Town] was instrumental in gaining
generous support from corporate bodies and the University of Cape Town, who
together recreated a working water mill.
>
>The Mill was founded in 1840 by Jacob Letterstedt, a Swede, who named it in
honour of Crown Princess Josephine of Sweden who had granted him an official
audience in 1837. Jacob arrived in Cape Town almost penniless in a party of
1820 Settlers, but he had the good fortune of finding favour with a widow,
Maria Dreyer, owner of two farms in Newlands, Louwvliet and Questenberg.
Maria, though 18 years his senior, offered Jacob marriage, which he
accepted, and they married on 14 August 1822. Jacob unified the farms as
Mariendahl, named after his wife. Though the mill stood alongside the
Liesbeek River, Jacob led the water to the mill race along an aquaduct from
the Newlands Spring near Newlands Avenue...
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