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Plaque erected in 1994 Huguenot Monument and grounds. The Huguenot Monument in Franschhoek, Western Cape, South Africa, is dedicated to the cultural influences that Huguenots have brought to the Cape Colony (and ultimately the whole of South Africa) after their immigration during the 17th and 18th centuries.
Huguenot Memorial Chapel and Monument is a historic church located at Manakin, Powhatan County, Virginia. Built in 1700 by French Huguenots, Protestant refugees, it was moved to its current location in 1710. It burned down in the Revolutionary War and was later rebuilt with parts of the original building. It is in what is called the Carpenter ...
The museum presents education programs e.g. history of the Huguenots, Fynbos, Khoisan, Architecture and Genealogy / Families. Guided tours of the museum for visitors are also available. The annual Huguenot Festival presented by the Huguenot Society in conjunction with the museum takes place in the last weekend of October.
A large monument to commemorate the arrival of the Huguenots in South Africa was inaugurated on 7 April 1948 at Franschhoek. The Huguenot Memorial Museum was also erected there and opened in 1957. The official policy of the Dutch East India governors was to integrate the Huguenot and the Dutch communities.
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In that year the English King William III granted 10,000 acres of land in Virginia from to the Marquis Olivier de la Muce, a French aristocrat and Huguenot who had been imprisoned in the Castle of Nantes on the Isle of Re before escaping to England some ten years earlier. Fellow Huguenots ultimately created the colony of Manakin on the banks of ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "Huguenot history in South Africa" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 ...
The grounds for the memorial were not easily obtained. The Huguenot Memorial Society had to go to the Supreme Court in order to secure the rights to the disused cemetery where they intended to erect the building. [2] The building houses the Cape Town office of the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA). [3]