Clarkson is a Moravian Mission station scenically placed at the foot of the Tsitsikhamma Mountains. Founded in 1837, the mission was named after a prominent opponent of slavery and the slave trade, Thomas Clarkson. The parsonage is one of the oldest buildings in the Eastern Cape and one of the few eighteenth century buildings in the Province. The entire historic core of the mission is intact and well worth a visit, with the buildings in the typically elegant Moravian style, displaying the old government notices in High Dutch, and in a setting that appears scarcely altered since the days of the missions founding.

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