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Josephine Mill, Newlands, Cape Town

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Post date: 07/08/2012
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History: The property known as the Josephine Mill and occasionally Letterstedt’s Mill in Boundary road, Newlands, came into the ownership of the Historical Society of Cape Town in 1975 by Deed of Gift from Miss I East s has owned it for twenty years. It is singularly appropriate that this site should have been transferred to a body of this nature as it represents a most important aspect of the early history of South Africa being part of the original freehold land granted along the Liesbeeck River in 1657 by the first commander of the settlement, Jan van Riebeeck. From that date this small area, of 86 sq. rds. on which the mill is sited has remained anonymous, and it passed transfer by transfer, from one owner to another without being specifically mentioned, with its identity hidden in the large property which before 1700 was known as Louwvliet. According to a plaque on the building, in 1840 the then owner, Jacob Letterstedt built what has since been known as the Josephine Mill. When it assumed an identy of its own the erf became known as Lot Josephine Mill but has now become erf 96664/Cape Town at Newlands. With one hundred and twenty birthdays behind it, the mill, after many years in oblivion, will once more come to life and play a part in the history of the Cape as it did during its heyday in the nineteenth century. The mill was the successor of an earlier mill built on the site in 1818 by Johannes Frederick Dreyer. In 1859 Letterstedt built the brewery on the present Ohlsson’ s site and a plaque on the front of the building to this effect is still visible. This brewery, together with the Josephine Mill formed the nucleus of his brewing enterprise and they must ever remain historically linked. The mill itself is remarkable in that it is. the only remaining watermill in the Cape Peninsula with any machinery (the wheel) still in existence. For this reason alone it is worthy of preservation apart from its intimate connection with the old brewery now being preserved by Ohlssons. Further this wheel, basically intact as it is of wrought iron, is, according to Mr James Walton, the expert on mills and milling, the only remaining one of its particular type in South Africa.
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