The rugged mountains surrounding the De Kaap Valley have, for more than 140 years, been filled with stories of abandoned mine shafts, missing gold caches, secret claims and treasure.
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Transport riders and ox-wagons of the De Kaap Valley
Before railways and proper roads, everything that sustained the De Kaap goldfields arrived by ox-wagon.
FitzPatrick's years on the wagon roads of the Lowveld
Before Jock of the Bushveld made him famous, Percy FitzPatrick spent years as a transport rider on the rugged wagon roads linking Barberton to the coast.
How the rush for riches changed the De Kaap valley forever
In 1884, everything changed. Before there was a gold rush, there was a valley. Before there was Barberton, there were communities.