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- Sarah Baartman
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The land on which these gardens were laid out was granted to the Albany Botanical Gardens in 1853 by the Governor of the Cape, Sir George Cathcart. It originally formed part of the Drostdy estate. There Botanical Gardens are the second oldest in the country.
The cottage on the grounds, which dates from the 1830s, was erected in the Romantic style known as cottage orne, with peaked gothic windows and a Georgian chimney. It is unique in the Eastern Cape.
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The original portion of the Botanical Gardens, inclusive of the historic cottage thereon, as detailed on Survey Diagram SM.5419 (19d) (1853) as the figure ABCDEFG to A and at present described as certain piece of land in the City of Grahamstown (now Erf 3282) in the Division of Albany, in extent three (3) morgen, four hundred and forty-four (444) square roods and seventy-two (72) square feet.
Deed of Transfer 6520/1922, dated 1 August 1922 (paragraph 1).
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