King Williams Town
Municipality
Municipality: Buffalo City Local Municipality
District Municipality: Amatole District Municipality
Name
King Williams Town is named after the British King William the Fourth
Attractions
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The Amatole museum holds 25'000 specimens of African mammals, some which are very rare, such as one of two of the black lechwe of Zimbabwe, a 5,5m tall giraffe, web-footed hares from Calvinia, silver moles from Namaqualand and more. An interesting exhibit is that of Huberta, a hippo who took a trip of 800Km down the coast of South Africa. She was killed in 1930 in the Keiskamma River. The Steve Biko Garden of Rememberance can be viewed, as well as the graves of victims of the Bisho massacre.
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History
King Williams Town was established by the London Missionary Society in 1826. During the next decades there were skirmishes with the Xhosa people. In 1835 and in 1846 they destroyed the mission. A military camp was settled there, and in 1857 2'500 of the disbanded German Legion settled in the area.
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