The decision to establish the Colesberg Bank was taken at a public meeting held on 28 December 1860 at Colesberg, Cape of Good Hope.
A Guide to the Old Buildings of the Cape is a book by Hans Fransen, subtitled A survey of extant architecture from before c. 1910 in the area of Cape Town–Calvinia–Colesberg–Uitenhage.
Here a bridge had to be constructed across the Orange for the line from Colesberg to be continued to Springfontein.
Nicolaas Hendrik Christiaan de Jong Theunissen (4 May 1867 in Colesberg, Cape Colony – 9 November 1929 in Willemsdal, Greylingstad, Transvaal) was a South African cricketer who played in one Test in 1889.