Window = George = Greek
My town, George was proclaimed by the Earl of Caledon , governor of the Cape Colony on St George's Day , 23 April 1811, and named after the reigning British monarch, King George III. Adriaan Geysbertus van Kervel was appointed the first magistrate. One of Van Kervel's first acts as magistrate was to dig a furrow to supply the first thirty six plots in George with water. An 1819 map shows the original furrows and storage dam where they remain to this day in the Garden Route Botanical Gardens. My house is right there. If only they had supplied 40 plots... The Georgian era is a period of British history from 1714 to 1830, during the reigns of the kings George I, George II, George III and George IV (with the sub-period of the Regency, defined by the Regency of George IV as Prince of Wales during the illness of his father George III). The style of Georgian and Regency houses was based on that of classical Greek architecture. The propo