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Johannesburg’s historic old fort stands in Kotzi Street on Hospital Hill, to the north of the city centre. In 1896 the Government of the South African Republic decided to build a fort round the existing prison. The prison was built already in 1892 and enlarged in 1894. The fort was completed in 1899 and handed over to the State Artillery.
Fort Armstrong: Kat River: 1836 Fort Beaufort: Fort Beaufort: 1839 Cock's Castle Port Alfred: About 1840 Fort Cox: Middledrift: 1835 Fort Frederick: Gqeberha: 1799 Fort Glamorgan East London: 1848 Fort Hare: Alice: 1835 Fort Murray King Williams Town: 1835 Fort Peddie Peddie: 1835 Fort Selwyn Grahamstown: 1836 Soffiantini's Castle East London ...
The Old Fort was declared a National Monument in 1964 although it continued as a functioning prison until 1987, after which the buildings and the site as a whole suffered from neglect and vandalism. [3] Constitution Hill opened as a museum in 2004, with tours taking the visitors to three prison museums: Number Four, the Women's Gaol and the Old ...
Fort Daspoortrand, Gauteng(1896–1898) Fort Durnford, Estcourt, KwaZulu-Natal (1847) Fort Hare, Alice, Eastern Cape (19th century) Fort Klapperkop, Pretoria, Gauteng (1890s) Fort Mistake, Glencoe, KwaZulu-Natal; Fort Nongqayi, KwaZulu-Natal (1883) Fort Schanskop, Gauteng (1890s) Fort Wonderboompoort, Gauteng (1897) Greylingstad, Mpumalanga (c ...
Forts established by the North-West Mounted Police includes: ... Johannesburg Fort, Gauteng; Fort Klapperkop, ... (aka Old Fort Jackson or Fort Oglethorpe), ...
Declassified photos taken by Cold War-era spy satellites have revealed hundreds of previously unknown Roman-era forts, in what is now Iraq and Syria, a new study found.
Pages in category "Forts in South Africa" ... Old Fort (Durban) P. Pretoria Forts; R. Ramkraal Prison; Redoubt Duijnhoop; T. Fort Tenedos; V. Voortrekker Fort ...
(A stone monument in memory of the siege victims was erected in the adjoining cemetery.) This old earthwork or fort is situated a few hundred metres south of the Potchefstroom railway station. Its origin is a mystery, for when it became of historical importance during the First Transvaal War of Independence, it was already old. In 1877 Great ...