Eastern Cape, JANSENVILLE district, Rural (farm cemeteries) / Eastern Cape, JANSENVILLE district, Darlington Dam, Dwaas 232_1, Lake Mentz Memorial and cemetery / (6 of 8 images)
Cemetery information:-
Darlington was a hamlet officially founded in 1905 by a hawker and farmer, P.W.F. Weyers, who harboured a life-long grudge against the Boers because they shot and killed two of his cows on Bedrogsfontein Pass during the Anglo-Boer War.
Darlington disappeared when Lake Mentz was built to supply irrigation water to Sundays River Valley farmers.
Lake Mentz. is a gravity type dam situated in the Sundays River, near Kirkwood. It was completed in 1922 and only filled by 1928, the delay a result of extensive drought. The construction experienced many setbacks, including lack of materials and machinery, with shortages caused by the First World War, unsuitable labour (returning soldiers), the 1918 influenza epidemic, bubonic plague, very difficult logistics and drought.
It was renamed Darlington Dam in 1990.
(source: Wikipedia & https://aridareas.co.za/roses-s-roundup/darlington-a-damn-fine-story/)
Album complete.
eGGSA captions by: Annel Meyer & James Anderson
The GGSA Cemetery DVD only has information on the cemetery location.
Cemetery ID: 5877
Google Earth Cemetery Initiative Information:-
GPSID: 7043
GPS: -33 12.767, 25 08.585
GROENEWALD Barend Hermanus 1851-1926
contributed by: Willie Engelbrecht
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