Officially Smithfield's firts Geocache! Remember to bring your own pen and enjoy the Geocaching!
Visit Smithfield at Joana Square and learn a bit about the town's history. Read the history of Joana Square on the historical boards (scan the QR codes for more history) and visit the monument that is unmistakable in the net between Joana Square and the filling station.
The monument was erected in 1938 as part of the symbolic "Ossewa Trek" that celebrated the centenary of the 1838 Great Trek. The reenactment of the Groot Trek began on August 8, 1938, at the Jan van Riebeeck statue in Cape Town, witnessed by 25,000 attendees. From various places across the country, ox wagons traveled from town to town. Friendly farmers provided fresh teams of oxen along the route for the trek. Thousands of enthusiastic celebrants, often dressed in Voortrekker attire and with luxuriant beards, and sometimes on horseback, awaited the ox wagons along the trek route. In several towns, a street was renamed Voortrekker Street, and a small monument was unveiled in the town or church square to commemorate the "Groot Trek" and the centenary celebrations.
Often, such a memorial also consists of the tracks of the oxen, wagons, and leaders cast in cement.