Bowkers Park (ZA)
From Stamps of the World
Bowkers Park is a railway station (RSO) on the western outskirts of Queenstown. The station is named after Holden Bowker who was the Resident Magistrate Kat River Settlement in 1848 and Member of the House of Assembly from 1854 to 1863. As an archaeologist, he was noted for his work in discovering and excavating prehistoric stone implements near the Fish River in the 1850s. His collection and notes on entomology are housed in the Albany Museum in Grahamstown. He founded the town of Queenstown, where Bowker's Park and Bowker's Kop are named after him. He was offered the Presidency of the Orange Free State in 1863, but did not accept. He later became a Government Agent at Kimberley.
_a.jpg)
_a.jpg){kind=link}