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Algoa Bay 003

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Post date: 11/11/2015
Alternate Code & Name: Site 3
Site Comments:

According to local oral history the old wagon road between Port Elizabeth and Port Alfred passed through this area (Du Preez, pers. comm.). It is also along this section of the old wagon road that the person mentioned in Site 2 was killed. The remains of a two track road can still be seen and while its eastern end near the recorded coordinates turn back towards the existing gravel road, it seems to extent for some distance parallel to the gravel road to the west of the recorded coordinates. The site is located on Portion 6 of the farm Milner Vale 295 owned by Mr J.R. du Preez. An overlay was made of the First Edition of the 3325DB Topographical Sheet and the site position. It has revealed the gravel road providing access to the farms throughout the study area made a wider turn in 1943 than what it does today. This wider turn of the road is then what can still be seen in the landscape. Although the age of this gravel road is not known, it would certainly have existed at the time that the railway line was built in c. 1908.

 
 

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