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- It was only after the second (and permanent) British occupation of the colony in the early 1800s that the town was officially proclaimed. That’s how it came to be named after the reigning British monarch at the time, King George III – it received the name, appropriately enough, on St George’s Day; 23 April 1811.
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Originally named Georgetown after King George III, it was declared a separate District on 23 April 1811, the first to be proclaimed at the Cape; after the British occupation in 1806.
George is the second largest city in the Western Cape province of South Africa. The city is a popular holiday and conference centre, as well as the administrative and commercial hub and the seat of the Garden Route District Municipality. It is named after the British Monarch George III.
Local khoi knowledge claims an oral history, passed from generation to generation, that gave Cape Town the name //Hui !Gaeb, or ‘where clouds gather’. Look up at the mountain when the wind blows, and that same tablecloth is often in evidence.
The town of George is central to South Afrtican Garden Route in the Western Cape province and is the sixth oldest town in South Africa - the first founded under British rule - and was named after the reigning monarch in 1811, King George III.
The town was established in 1811, and named after the ruling British king, George III. George served as a woodcutter’s outpost who supplied timber to the Cape Colony for many years. Initially, the town grew slowly, partly due to the lack of accessible roads through the Outeniqua Mountains.
On 23 April 1811, the Earl of Caledon, British Governor of the Cape, proclaimed the new magisterial district of George. The new town was named after the reigning monarch of England, King George III. The first magistrate, Adrian van Kervel, supervised the buiding of the Drostdy (residency) in 1812.
