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Greenmarket Square in 1762 with the Old Town House in the background. In the years following Cape Town's establishment in 1652 a number of streets came into existence above Strand Street (which followed the natural shoreline) and the Company Gardens which initially functioned as a market garden run by the Dutch East India Company to supply ships.
The church is the second oldest building on Greenmarket Square after the Old Town House located opposite it. Construction started in 1876 and completed on 12 November 1879 [6] at a cost of £17,700 (equivalent to (£2,273,000 in 2025). [2] The architect was Charles Freeman [6] and the building contractor was Thomas Inglesby. [7]
Sturk's Tobacconists is a tobacconist based in Greenmarket Square, Cape Town, South Africa.Founded on 1 August 1793 is notable for being the oldest tobacconist [1] [2] and possibly oldest business in South Africa.
The outdoor Greenmarket Farmers Market in Union Square, Manhattan, held four days each week. There are over 50 farmer's markets in New York City in all boroughs, which operate under GrowNYC under the "Greenmarket" name. [1]
Browse The Delray GreenMarket. Delray Beach GreenMarket/Facebook. Also at Old School Square, this year-round Saturday market draws more than 50 vendors selling local produce, baked goods, plants ...
The Greenmarket Square refugee sit-in was a sit-in protest by a group of refugees for the purpose of getting relocated to a country outside of South Africa in response to xenophobia in the country. It lasted from 8 October 2019 when protestors first occupied the Waldorf Arcade to 2 April 2020 when the last group of protestors were evicted from ...
The Cape Town International Jazz Festival started in 2000 [1] [8] as part of the North Sea Jazz Festival. This was part of an arrangement that came about as a result of the partnership between espAfrika (a South African events management company founded by Rashid Lombard) and Mojo Concerts BV, the founders of the Dutch North Sea Jazz Festival. [2]
At some point in the mid-1980s, a pony-tailed upstate New York environmental activist named Jay Westerveld picked up a card in a South Pacific hotel room and read the following: "Save Our Planet ...