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Doornfontein farm
Title
Doornfontein farm
Alternative Title
Annex Doornfontein
Location Type
farm
Farm Number
446
Nearby Town
Postmasburg
Magistrate District
Barkly West
Province
Northern Cape
Description
South-East of Kuruman
Toponomy
In Afrikaans: "Fountain of thorn trees"
Historical Ownership
Postmasburg area: This "Doornfontein" was granted to JK Visser by Captain Nicolaas Waterboer, probably in the 1870s (Cape of Good Hope, Return of Farms and Lands granted in Griqualand West, Cape Town 1881, p. 28).
Latitude
-27.7272
Longitude
24.0752
Geographic coordinates sourced from
Chief Surveyor General Geographic Information System
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