This project has been made possible by a research grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council of Great Britain, whose assistance is gratefully ackowledged.
Artificers Square, Grahamstown
These cottages, erected in the 1840'sas part of a small town in the process of creating itself along ideas of communal space imported from Europe, are an icon of settler presence. They stand for the solid artisanal class from which many 1820 settlers came, and whose unpretentious, hardy, and practical values still prevail throughout white communities in the Eastern Cape. The square was declared a National Monument under the Apartheid regime.
