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Description
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The Bathurst, Eastern Cape, South Africa collection is a curated set of digitised historical resources held by the Cory Library and Historical Archives at Rhodes University. It documents the town of Bathurst in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, including visual and cartographic materials that illustrate the town’s landscape, architecture, and historical development within the broader context of Eastern Cape frontier history. The items span the early settlement and colonial periods, including aerial views, architectural photographs (such as those of St. John’s Church, built in 1832), historical plans and maps of the town, and images of notable local features like Round Hill and old settler houses. This collection contributes to understanding the patterns of settlement, religious and civic infrastructure, and geographical context of a key 19th century colonial town on the Albany frontier. The collection sits within the Frontier Collection and contributes to research on settler town development, local history, and material culture in the Eastern Cape.
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Format
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Digital images
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Maps
Aerial view of Bathurst suurveld Aerial view of Bathurst suurveld, the old Zuure Veldt, looking north to Kap River Hills with the dome of Round Hill centrally.
Bathurst Church from a distance St. John's Church (Bathurst), built 1832.
Bathurst Church near view St. John's Church (Bathurst), built 1832.
Cape of Good Hope Command Eastern Frontier Division - Cawood's Post: plan of War Department property around old post "Fine pasture country uninhabited and considered neutral ground".,Title 29th January 1944. Copied by Walter P. Jones, 21st July 1873.
Old Drostdy House Bathurst 
Old Settler's house Bathurst 
Plan of Bathurst 
Serial photo of Round Hill Bathurst (centre of picture) Vegetated dune-hill showing mature vegetation there in 1926 before Kenton-on-Sea was built up. Taken by C.J.Skead in 1926 when a schoolboy at St. Andrews College. He and a party of friends walked stark naked from here along the beach to Bushman's River Mount without fear of being seen by a soul.
Serial photo of Round Hill Bathurst (centre of picture) Surrounded by Bathurst suurveld. Taken from western side.
Serial photo of Round Hill Bathurst (centre of picture) Surrounded by Bathurst suurveld. Taken from north facing towards the coast.
St John's Anglican Church, Bathurst: old plan of the graveyard. Plan of Church graveyard
St John's Anglican Church, Bathurst: old plan of the graveyard. Plan of Church graveyard
St John's Anglican Church, Bathurst: old plan of the graveyard. Plan of Church graveyard
The district of Albany, formerly t'Zuureveld "Fine pasture country uninhabited and considered neutral ground".
Village of Clumber