The town allegedly grew around a general store established in 1894 by a travelling Bible salesman, named Fredrick Turner, the son of the sister of Charles Spurgeon.

Collectively the wind farms will power circa 240,000 South African households, positively impacting the country’s economy and its people.

“Considering the sheer scale of these power projects, the multiple levels of activities and the complexities involved in building these very large wind farms, it is an impressive achievement for our construction team.

He wrote a book on this subject with the late Mr André Pretorius ("Windpumps in South Africa", published by Human and Rousseau in 1998 but currently out of print).

In order to share this collected knowledge with a wider audience, he invited potentially interested organisations and places to start a windpump museum.

Since its establishment there, the museum team and interested persons all over South Africa have sponsored and collected 27 windpumps, now assembled and on display.

Large quiver trees (sometimes referred to as "Aloes") can be seen on the road from Nieuwoudtville to Louriesfontein The area is famous for the display of wild flowers in the season, principally during August and September.