A 90cm buried rock reveals an 1860s estate stretching from Clementi to Queensway

via The Straits Times, 19 November 2021: A 19th century granite boundary marker is discovered in Singapore.

When he was young, Professor Walter Tan would hear comments from his parents about how “the whole of Queenstown used to be ours”, but it was not until this year that the full extent of his ancestor’s estate became clear.

The discovery of a granite boundary marker in Dover Forest in January sparked months-long research that proved that his philanthropist great-great-great-grandfather Tan Kim Seng’s landholding in the 1860s was far larger than imagined.

Overlaid on today’s map, it encompasses Singapore Polytechnic, the National University of Singapore’s Kent Ridge Campus, a long stretch of the Ayer Rajah Expressway, one-north, Queensway and the Southern Ridges.

Source: A 90cm buried rock reveals an 1860s estate stretching from Clementi to Queensway, Singapore News & Top Stories – The Straits Times

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