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possibility of proclaiming a town on the farm. Eventually, Moodie invested a lot of work into developing a town plan after securing an option to buy the farm but due to an oversight by Moodie's lawyer, Terblans was able to step back out of their agreement at the last moment and sell the ground to Thesen and
Company. However, Charlie Thesen decided to compensate Moodie for his invested effort and allowed him to name the newly proclaimed town.
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Sedgefield (The Village) together with the Island (Extension 1) form part of the original town area. Since then, the extensions of Smutsville, Sizamile, Meedingsride, Groenvallei, Myoli Beach and Cola Beach were added to provide residences for the approximately 15 000 permanent
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Until the end of the 20th century, Sedgefield was an independent local authority. When the ANC came to power nationally, for a variety of reasons, they decided to reduce the total of such local authorities country-wide and
Sedgefield became part of Knysna. This was a decision that was opposed by
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A library was opened in 1962 and the town expanded further during the next four decades to comprise a central business district with supermarkets, pharmacies, filling stations, curio shops and other undertakings. Fresh water has been supplied from nearby
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Herald from 1927 onwards. The first families to settle were the Salts, Schumachers, Browns, Barnards and
Mullers. In 1921 a railway connection between George and Knysna was planned and the project was completed in 1928 by routing the line over a new bridge crossing the adjacent Swartvlei (‘Black
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movement. A popular attraction is the Wild-Oats Mosaic & Scarab
Markets which attract large numbers of tourists and residents from the region, and further afield, every Saturday morning with fresh produce, local crafts & tasty homemade foods to suit everyone. A golf course (the ‘Fynbos
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Kate
Maurice (née Barrington) inherited the farm Sedgefield from her brother upon his death in 1901. Kate sold the farm in 1911 to Salmon Terblans. A part of the farm Sedgefield was subsequently sold as Middelplaas, but was reincorporated in 1926. Terblans and Thomas Moodie investigated the
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925:Sedgefield
920:Rheenendal
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402:Sedgefield
206:Population
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125:34°01′17″S
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