Tulbagh

a pretty little place called Tulbagh, where there was another small camp of troops.

In the Ranks of the C.I.V. Erskine Childers 1896

The eldest son, Barend, settled in the Land van Waveren (now Tulbagh) .28 Daughter Helena and her husband Jan Olivier also held loan farms there, as did the youngest sibling Jacobus. 29

Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

Its conclusion effectively ended the possibility of independent existence for local hunters and herders living near colonial settlements in the Land van Waveren (present-day Tulbagh) and regions to the north.

Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

He claimed 100 cattle and 200 sheep at a secondary farm in Voor Stellenbosch. 39 He pastured more cattle at Brakkefontein. 40 Pfeil had other loan farms during the 1720s in Tulbagh and Elsenberg, suggesting that he acquired grazing land when and where it was convenient.

Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

De Clercq's 300 rixdollar wagons were near Tulbagh, not on the frontier.

Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

Unlike secular administrative districts that next spread eastward, the Church created two new gemeentes to the north of the village of Stellenbosch, but still in the Stellenbosch district, establishing the Roodezand (modern Tulbagh) congregation in 1743 and the Swartland gemeente in 1745, half a decade before the Church created a ward in Swellendam in 1798.43

Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

In 1804 the region was incorporated into the newly created Tulbagh district.

Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

Note 30: On the early history of Tulbagh, see A.J. Böeseken and Margaret Cairns, The Secluded Valley — Tulbagh: 't Land van Waveren 1700 – 1894 (Cape Town and Johannesburg: Perskor, 1989). back

Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

Over three previous wine-soaked visits to South Africa, I'd never even heard of Tulbagh.

Huffington Post Tastemaker: Touring South Africa's Wine Country 2008

Within a decade, Tulbagh has become one of South Africa's most exciting appellations, growing from three producers to nearly two dozen and regularly turning out coveted bottlings.

Huffington Post Tastemaker: Touring South Africa's Wine Country 2008