- Title
- Elizabeth Salt Monument in High Street (Grahamstown)
- Creator
- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Subject
- Monuments -- South Africa -- Grahamstown -- Photographs
- Subject
- Trees -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Date Issued
- 19uu
- Date
- 19uu
- Type
- mixed material
- Type
- photographs
- Type
- landscape photographs
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/72216
- Identifier
- vital:30018
- Description
- Elisabeth Salt Monument, High Street, Grahamstown, South Africa, commemorating the Xhosa-British battle of 22 April 1819. It was built in memory of the pioneer woman in the Battle of Grahamstown. In 1819 Xhosa’s attacked the settlement with about 6 000 men. Many of the warriors died during the battle but only 2 British. According to legend Elizabeth salt carried a keg of gunpowder through the Xhosa warriors to the men by wrapping it in a baby blanket. This story is shown on the plaque on the monument. The monument also marks the spot where, under a tree, Lieutenant Colonel Graham and Captian Stockenstrom decided on the site for Grahamstown. They camped on the land where the cathedral stands today. The town was proclaimed in August 1811 and was named after Colonel John Graham.
- Format
- Photograph (black and white) ; 7 x 10 cm (accompanied by text)
- Format
- jpg
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Rights
- This item is made freely accessible via Creative Commons license Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)
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