Arlington started off as an important rail link between the towns of Lindley and Senekal, but it soon became an independent town serving a self-sufficient…
This town, set among waving fields of grain, is the commercial centre of the Eastern Free State and dates from 1864. The Bethlehem region produces some 65…
This picturesque little town, “The Jewel of the Free State”, nestles snugly against the foothills of the sandstone Rooiberge (“Red Mountains”) and is…
This area, overshadowed by the 1 820 m high Hlohlowane Mountain, was first named Hlohlowane – “Ridge of the Battle” – by its Basotho inhabitants but, when…
This small rural town was founded in 1875 and named after Cornelia, the wife of a former president of the Free State, Francis Reitz. The town is renowned…
Ficksburg is a beautiful town situated on the west bank of the Caledon River at the foot of Imperani Mountain. The earliest inhabitants of the Ficksburg…
Fouriesburg was established in 1892 on land donated to the Orange Free State Government by one “Rooi” Stoffel Fourie. During the Anglo-Boer War the town was…
Harrismith lies on the banks of the Wilge River at the foot of the nine-km long, 2 394-m high Platberg Mountain. The town is strategically situated on…
The Reverend JD Kestell, a well-known churchman of the time, founded this small town in 1905. Although Kestell was the son of an 1820 British settler he…
This small town on the banks of the Vals River, named after the missionary David Lindley, was founded in 1875. A weir built across the river has created a…
