Overview
Identifiers
Inventory Number
2830AC11
Site Name
Talana Battlefield, Farm Dundee 4339, Dundee District: Talana Museum
Site Category
Record Administration
Post date
Friday, June 22, 2012 - 14:32
Last modified
Thursday, May 2, 2024 - 16:43
Monuments
Monuments & Memorials Recordings
Submitted by sahrisprojectmanager on Friday, February 19, 2021 - 12:20.
Identifiers
Inventory Reference
Primary?
Off
Classifications
Monument Type
Description
The Smith Cottage is to provide a picture of the lives of the hardy pioneer farmers that once lived there.Who was one of the founder of Dundee
Original Position
The Smith Cottage is still at the original place it was built
Contains Animal figures?
No
Contains Human figures?
No
Construction Date Comment
1859
Construction Materials
Corrugated iron roof,brick walls,wooden floors,wood and glass door,glass windows,Stones with concrete outside the verandah,wooden green planks to support the iron roof outside the verandah.
Pedestal Material
The cottage is built on an outcrop of sandstone-there are no foundations
Event Commemorated
The Smith Cottage commemorate the history of the founders of Dundee. it deplict the type of life that he and his family lived
Unveiled Comment
The Administrator of Natal, Mr Stoffel Botha
Inscriptions
Peter Smith,his wife Ann,their son William Craighead and daughters Isabella and Elizabeth,arrived in South Africa in December 1859 from Hole Hill Farm,Dundee,Scotland,his brother Thomas,a bachelor had been here since 1855 and in 1864 the two brothers built and occupied this cottage. Peter and William Smith,Dugald Macphail (Peters son in law) and Charles G. Willson were the founders of Dundee,Natal.The cottage has been restored by descendanta of Peter Smith
Structures
Built Environment Recordings
Submitted by sahrisprojectmanager on 07/08/2012.
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Classifications
Building type
Associated People
History of use
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Location
Location
Mapping
-28.154396, 30.259097
KwaZulu-Natal
- Umzinyathi
- Endumeni
Land Parcel Details
Type of land parcel
Farm
Land Parcel Reference
Erf/Farm No: 4339
Erf/Farm Portion: 728
Erf/Farm Portion: 728
Directions to Site
Travelling out of Dundee towards Vryheid, the museum, is on the left hand side of the road, about one (1km) kilometre.
Subdivision 727 of the farm Dundee 4339, situate in the County of Klip River, Province of Natal, and measuring 8,1750 hectares.
Subdivision 727 of the farm Dundee 4339, situate in the County of Klip River, Province of Natal, and measuring 8,1750 hectares.
Access details
Access available to the public
Gradings
Grading
Autoid
Submitted by
Submitted by sahrisprojectmanager on 27/06/2012 - 02:00.
Grading
Grade II
GradingComment
archiveimport Grading by: South African Heritage Resources Agency
Statement of Significance
Historical interest - The Battle of Talana, which took place on 20 October 1899, was the first large
Declarations
Declaration
DeclarationName
Declaration Type
Declaration Description
The site with the Talana Battlefield thereon, being Subdivision 727 of the farm Dundee 4339, situate
Gazette Date
Gazette Number
8481
Notice Date
Notice Number
2679
Deeds Number
T14599/1979
Archive Status
National monument
Media
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The iron roof dates from 1901.
The cottage is built on an outcrop of sandstone and there is no foundations.
The original cottage consisted of the two front rooms.
The kitchen ,pantry and bathroom were added in 1870's.
The main bedroom and drawing room were added after the Anglo-Boer War.
The roll top desk belonged to Peter Smith.
The two upright wooden chairs with leather seats in the entrace room were a wedding present to Dugald Macphail and Isabella Smith from the Duke of Argyll.
The wallpapers and flooring designed were passed on to the museum researchers by elderly people who had known and visited the Smiths in their house so that they could recreate the house as it was before peter and Ann lived in it.
The many decendants of the five childrem of Peter and Ann Smith joined together to restore the Smith Cottage for the centenary of Dundee town in May 1982Purpose:Date Unveiled: 22 May 1982Designer: Peter and Thomas SmithBuilder: Thomas and Peter SmithPerson/Institution Commemorated: Peter SmithRecorder Name: Mbalenhle Ndhlovu