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Today Green Point, the suburb between the Cape Town CBD and Sea Point, is where the parkrun crowd gathers on Saturday mornings, families stroll the park’s leafy paths, and the streets fill with “gees” when the stadium lights up on game nights. Over roughly three centuries, this patch of land has been a cattle post, a racecourse, a burial ground, a hospital precinct, a military camp and a fairly ordinary corner of the city before it became a prime address on the Atlantic Seaboard. Each generation has built something different here. What never changed was where it sits, between the city and the sea, and in property, you know what they say: location, location, location. Long before any European ship dropped anchor, and according to the Green Point Burial Grounds Project, Khoi-San herders grazed their cattle around Table Bay, and people were being buried in the sandy ground along this shore for more than a thousand years before the Dutch arrived. Once the Dutch East India Company set up its refreshment station, this flat, windswept land west of the settlement became a cattle grazing station, and the Dutch called it De Waterplaats. Nobody was building a home out here. It was the edge of town, open land you walked your cows to. Read the full article below