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Jacobsdal
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<p>Jacobsdal is a small farming town in the <a href="/facts/Free_State_(South_African_province)/vnKmcuBA">Free State</a> province of <a href="/facts/South_Africa/vvXQpLgq">South Africa</a> with various crops under irrigation, such as <a href="/facts/Grape/HaCaS4bT">grapes</a>, <a href="/facts/Potato/F8jRVExs">potatoes</a>, <a href="/facts/Alfalfa/Yesc424s">lucerne</a>, and <a href="/facts/Macrotyloma_geocarpum/gYwDn86o">groundnuts</a>. The town was laid out in 1859 by Christoffel Jacobs on his farm Kalkfontein, and its last recorded population was 3,504. </p>