Company's Garden

Company's Garden
Type Botanical
Location Cape Town, South Africa
Coordinates 33°55′39″S 18°25′00″E / 33.927408°S 18.416675°E / -33.927408; 18.416675Coordinates: 33°55′39″S 18°25′00″E / 33.927408°S 18.416675°E / -33.927408; 18.416675
Operated by City of Cape Town
Walking in the Company's Garden
Squirrel in the Company's Garden

The Company's Garden is a park and heritage site[1] located in central Cape Town. The garden was originally created in the 1650s by the region's first European settlers and provided fertile ground to grow fresh produce to replenish ships rounding the Cape. It is watered from the Molteno Dam, which uses water from the springs on the lower slopes of Table Mountain.[2]

Features in the park


Monument

Image Subject Location Designer/Sculptor Date of unveiling Notes Listing
Cecil John Rhodes

1855-1902
Your hinterland is there

33°55′36″S 18°25′03″E / 33.92664°S 18.4174°E / -33.92664; 18.4174 (Cecil John Rhones)

Herbert Baker June 28th, 1910 -University of Cape Town Newspaper Archives Cape Argus
Japanese Lantern Monument

33°55′33″S 018°25′6″E / 33.92583°S 18.41833°E / -33.92583; 18.41833

1932
Artillery Memorial

33°55′41.9″S 18°24′58.5″E / 33.928306°S 18.416250°E / -33.928306; 18.416250

Delville Wood Memorial

This memorial commemorates the South Africans who died in the Great Wars 1914-1918, 1939-1944.

33°55.686′S 18°24.958′E / 33.928100°S 18.415967°E / -33.928100; 18.415967 (Delville Wood Memorial) Herbert Baker 3 November 1930
Major General Sir Henry Timson Lukin

EKCB CMG DSO
Commander
Legion Nile
Born 24 May 1860
Died 16 December 1925
He served his King and beloved by his fellow men

33°55.672′S 18°24.939′E / 33.927867°S 18.415650°E / -33.927867; 18.415650 (Major General Sir Henry Timson Lukin)

Anton Van Wouw March 3rd, 1932 (University of Cape Town Newspaper Archives Cape Argus).
Sir George Grey K.C.B

Governor
1854-1861

33°55.538′S 18°25.112′E / 33.925633°S 18.418533°E / -33.925633; 18.418533 (Sir George Grey)

Marshall W. Calder
AIDS Memorial

33°55.669′S 18°24.991′E / 33.927817°S 18.416517°E / -33.927817; 18.416517 (AIDS Memorial) 2002
Temperance Memorial

Jesus said whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst But the water that I shall give him shall be in him as a well of that I shall give him shall never thirst water springing up into everlasting life

33°55.585′S 18°25.005′E / 33.926417°S 18.416750°E / -33.926417; 18.416750 (Temperance Memorial) 1861
Field Marshal General Jan Christian Smuts

1870 – 1950

33°55.708′S 18°24.990′E / 33.928467°S 18.416500°E / -33.928467; 18.416500 (Field Marshal General Jan Christian Smuts)

Sydney Harpley 29 May 1964

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