The convention was signed on 17 January 1852 by Andries Pretorius (for the Boers) and William Hogge and Mostyn Owen (for Great Britain) in a marquee on the banks of the Sand River near Ventersburg.
The Dutch Reform Church was built in Ventersburg in 1891 but it was burnt down in 1900 by the British forces during the Boer War.
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It was established on the farm Kromfontein which was owned by PA Venter who died in 1857.
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His son allowed a Reform Church to be established on the farm in 1864 and by 1871, the first plots of the original farm were sold.