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Date: 1825 Client: Samuel Bradshaw Type: Mill Status: Extant   Click to view map Coordinates: 33°30'35.23" S 26°48'55.31" E Alt: 174m

See more photographs Situated on the Bathurst river this wool-mill, the first in the Eastern Cape, was erected by the British Settler Samuel BRADSHAW in 1825. For ten years blankets and kersey cloth were manufactured until it was burnt down in 1835 during the Sixth Frontier War. After reconstruction in 1836 it was used as a grain-mill till the end of the last century when it fell into disuse. The building which is a milestone in the South African wool industry was bought in 1964 by the Simon van der Stel Foundation which restored it.