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Steytlerville History

People, places and heritage stories from Steytlerville.

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The town is named for Abraham Isaac Steytler, Dutch Reformed minister and later Moderator of the Cape synod.

British troops garrisoned Steytlerville during the South African War.

The neo-Gothic church in Sarel Cilliers Street replaced the first church. Its cornerstone was laid in 1906.

The Dutch Reformed church of Uitenhage bought a government farm in 1875, and the congregation was established in 1876.

The steel bridge over the Groot River opened in 1913.

Steytlerville became a municipality in 1891.

The site of St Paul's Anglican Church was consecrated in 1900.

Steytlerville's exceptionally wide main street was laid out so ox wagons could turn.