Kersefontein

Having finished with Rickety Bridge, I was scratching around in my files when I found a note on Kersefontein farm on the Berg river. I've checked and it is still owned by the Melcks and is still taking visitors. The old house was originally built in 1740 but was bought by Martin Melck in 1770. Martin had emigrated to the Cape in 1740   to work for the Dutch East India Company when jobs were scarce in his native Prussia. He worked on the silver mine scam at Stellenbosch for a while (I'll get to that another day) but did well and when he won a contract to supply meat to the Company, he bought Kersefontein. While the farm is now a National Monument, the present owner, Martin works it as a mixture of farm and cowboy ranch.

www.kersefontein.co.za