THE OLDEST HOUSE IN WHITE RIVER;
Between 1885 and 1895 an Angican minister (name unknown). planted a tree,where the old village green was, just over the road from where the original church stood.
This tree is still standing and even although it is not indigenous to the area, being a Natal Fig, it is now an historical monument.
A house, which was the "Vicarage", was built near to this tree between 1895 and 1905
and is contended to be the oldest house in White River.
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In 1916 the Anglican Church moved to where St Georges now stands on the Plaston Road
and the house was either given or sold to the Dutch Reformed Church and became "Die Pastorie".
The history of ownership becomes vague after this, but after the Church stopped using the pastorie it was used as a boarding house and also converted to into four flats which were seperately let. The house was also used as a post office at some stage.
In the 1970's it was converted into a lawyers office and estate agency.
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