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Historical and Cultural Attractions
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Ixopo
Architectural Features
Ixopo
Prison
Central Ixopo
The prison was completed in 1900, utilizing a section of the Old Fort
which was built in
1880 using locally quarried shale. It was used as a fort in 1906
when residents came
into laager during the Bambatha Rebellion.
Telephone: 039 8342074
Artifacts
Sundial
Grounds of the Magistrate's Court, Ixopo.
The old sundial can be found in the gardens of the magistrates
office. It was erected by
friends in the district in memory of Martinus Stuart.
Telephone: 039 8341168
Buildings
Agricultural
Hall
Centre of Ixopo
The old hall is a national monument and is now used as a bank.
Telephone: 039 834 1451
Border Mounted
Rifles
Hall
Ixopo
The hall was erected in 1908 by the residents of Ixopo as a memorial
to the men of the Border Mounted Rifles who had lost their lives in
The Anglo-Boer War
of 1899 to 1902.
Old Plough Hotel
Ixopo
This hotel is built in an imposing mock Tudor style. It was rebuilt
after being destroyed
by fire in June 1945.
Telephone: 039 8342080
Mission
Mariathal Mission,
Ixopo
area
A few kilometres north of Ixopo.
The mission was founded in 1887. It was the first seminary in Natal
for Catholic priests
who had studied
overseas.
Monuments
Cecil John
Rhodes Memorial
Lions Kloof, 12 kms down-river from the Mkomazi Bridge (PMB/Ixopo
Road).
This monument is located to the east of the main road between Ixopo
and Richmond, on the
south bank of the Umkomaas River. Rhodes and his brother briefly
farmed cotton in the
Mkomazi Valley in 1870, before going on to the diamond fields.
Telephone: 039
8341451
Retreat
Buddhist
Retreat Centre
About 8 kms north of Ixopo.
This centre for buddhist studies is situated on a 125ha estate at
the head of a valley a
few kilometres north of Ixopo. The centre is a tranquil and semi
monastic environment
for private retreats and group workshops in buddhist meditation,
philosophy,
psychology and allied disciplines.
Telephone: 039
8341863
Sites
Dead Mens'
Tree
Outside the old post office building. This old cypress tree used to
have all the death
and funeral notices nailed to the trunk.
Lion's
Kloof
At Lion's Kloof, 10 kms downriver from the Umkomaas River bridge.
The late Hon. Cecil John Rhodes farmed cotton here in 1868, on the
alluvial flats of the
Umkomaas Valley below Spitskop. He later went to the Kimberley
diamond fields with
his brother Hubert. Only then did he begin to amass a fortune.
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