it is difficult to know when the finer houseswere begun. But Kolbe, the traveller, at quite 171 OLD CAPE COLONY an early date speaks of the houses built foroutward show, and certainly the ironworkwhich is so admirable in this and Drakensteindistrict—shutter hinges, clasps, and handles—was made by… … SHUTTER HINGES, STELLENBOSCH AND DRAKENSTEIN. know stopped there, but for the most part theFrench settlers were moved on to the newer andpoorer districts in the Drakenstein and beyondSimonsberg. The power of the Landdrost extendedinto Drakenstein. Thus we find a letter fromthe Council in 1704,…
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