There is no document to give an exact date, but the hill sign at Little Falls was built in the 1920s in accordance to the fashion of the time, to display signs to the new-fangled flying machines that were becoming popular after World War I.
The sign was built above the already popular swimming resort of Little Falls, on the site of the Geldenhuys, and later the Struben, homestead.
Rod Kruger, Historian for Kloofendal, inspects little falls sign before painting 2010
After the Struben brothers, Fred and Harry, discovered gold near Little Falls, the word spread and the following year, in 1886, George Harrison discovered the Main Reef at Langlaagte. As the mines grew, Little Falls became first a welcome bath after a hard days mining and then a picnic resort. Beginning in the 1920s the area developed into a flower farm, with the warm North slope of the Wits hills and plentiful water supply that never dried up. The owners built a dam wall across the falls pool, to make a swimming pool, and built cabins along side the kloof.
Later the area would be sold to the Roodepoort Maraisburg Municipality. A fee was charged to enter the grounds. The area then passed into the hands...
