Kaalspruit
HIS OWN ADDRESS, IN HIS OWN ADVERTISEMENT. The Friend of the Free State, 9 March 1864: a lost promissory note, £154 sterling, signed “J.G.E. KOLBE, Kafferberg, Kaalspruit”. The obituary of 1868 says he settled here about 1850 and lies buried here. THE PIN IS AT BLOEMFONTEIN and it is an inference: a Free State soil-conservation district is registered as “KAALSPRUIT – KAFFERRIVIER (BLOEMFONTEIN)”, which pairs the same two names the advertisement pairs, in the district whose bank he was a director of and whose paper he advertised in. A NAME PAIR IS NOT A SURVEY BEACON. The Friend's own transcriber read this farm as “[Randspruit]”, bracketed and doubtful; the advertisement is why this archive reads Kaalspruit. 15 SEPTEMBER 2026 — THE GUESS NOW HAS THREE DOCUMENTS BEHIND IT. The obituary of his second wife's husband calls him “the late Commandant J.G.E. KOLBE, OF KAFIRBERG, NEAR THIS TOWN”, the town being Bloemfontein. An 1870 auction advertisement puts the neighbouring farm Leeuberg “about two hours ride from the town of Bloemfontein”. And his widow was living at SPRINGFIELD, WARD UPPER MODDER-RIVER, DISTRICT BLOEMFONTEIN in October 1868. Kafferberg, Kaalspruit, Leeuberg, Wildebeestkooi and Springfield are one neighbourhood, and it is not at Fauresmith.
The place
| Name | Kaalspruit |
| Kind | Farm |
| Region | District Bloemfontein, Orange Free State |
| Standing | Open |
Why it is here
HIS OWN ADDRESS, IN HIS OWN ADVERTISEMENT. The Friend of the Free State, 9 March 1864: a lost promissory note, £154 sterling, signed “J.G.E. KOLBE, Kafferberg, Kaalspruit”. The obituary of 1868 says he settled here about 1850 and lies buried here. THE PIN IS AT BLOEMFONTEIN and it is an inference: a Free State soil-conservation district is registered as “KAALSPRUIT – KAFFERRIVIER (BLOEMFONTEIN)”, which pairs the same two names the advertisement pairs, in the district whose bank he was a director of and whose paper he advertised in. A NAME PAIR IS NOT A SURVEY BEACON. The Friend's own transcriber read this farm as “[Randspruit]”, bracketed and doubtful; the advertisement is why this archive reads Kaalspruit. 15 SEPTEMBER 2026 — THE GUESS NOW HAS THREE DOCUMENTS BEHIND IT. The obituary of his second wife's husband calls him “the late Commandant J.G.E. KOLBE, OF KAFIRBERG, NEAR THIS TOWN”, the town being Bloemfontein. An 1870 auction advertisement puts the neighbouring farm Leeuberg “about two hours ride from the town of Bloemfontein”. And his widow was living at SPRINGFIELD, WARD UPPER MODDER-RIVER, DISTRICT BLOEMFONTEIN in October 1868. Kafferberg, Kaalspruit, Leeuberg, Wildebeestkooi and Springfield are one neighbourhood, and it is not at Fauresmith.
| When | What |
|---|---|
| c. 1850 | J.G.E. Kolbe settles here |
| 9 Mar 1864 | He advertises a lost promissory note from this address |
| Apr 1868 | Buried here |
| 15 Sep 2026 | three independent documents put the farm within an easy ride of Bloemfontein |