farm, Middelvlei, lies along the Bethlehem/Clarenspad, next to the Ash River. (An axle from a wagon, English - axle, not Ash as it stands on road signs today. An axle from a wagon from the Retieftrek broke in the river.) His first house, built of sod, was well preserved by posterity and still to be seen near the later homestead. The family graves can also be seen near the homestead Society and culture Museums, provincial heritage sites and memorials A number of heritage sites are located in Bethlehem: 14 President Burgers Street A B Baartman Wagon House Loch Athlone Dam Wall Main Building of the Bethlehem Technical College Nederduitse Gereformeerde Mother Church Old Magistrates Court Old Nederduitse Gereformeerde Mission Church parsonage Old Nederduitse Gereformeerde Mission Church St Andrews Presbyterian Church St Augustine Anglican Church Strapps Shop The Seminary Town Hall Wooden Spoon Restaurant Schools Villiers Combined High School Tiisetsang High School Ntsu Secondary School Thabo-Thokoza Secondary School L.K Ntlabathi Secondary School Jordania Primary School Truida Kestell Primary School Graanveld Primary School Bethlehem Comprehensive School Bodikela intermediate School Bethlehem Voortrekker High School Bohlokong Primary School Nthute Primary School Motshepuwa Primary School Rehopotswe Primary School New Horizon College Impumelelo Primary School Impucuko Primary School Khanyeng Intermediate School Witteberg High School Climate Shopping Bethlehem has many shopping centres like any other town in the Free State. Bethlehem is the main center of the eastern Free State where people from other towns do their shopping, the main shopping malls are: Bethlehem mall Dihlabeng mall Maluti square. Others are: Village square Sechaba Mall (Previously Metropolitan life Centre prior to November 2018) Shoprite Centre. With the shopping in this town also characterized by typical high street shopping with majority of shops situated along the Muller, Cambridge, Louw, Church, High and other surrounding streets. Sport Premier Soccer League and National First Division clubs Free State Stars and Super Eagles F.C are based in Bethlehem and plays its home games at Goble Park. Bethlehem is also the birthplace of notable rugby union players including Jannie and Bismarck du Plessis and Frans Steyn. One of the greatest rugby players in history, Tom van Vollenhoven who played rugby union for South Africa and rugby league for St Helens in England was born in Bethlehem. 2019 Japan Rugby World Cup winning team player of Springboks, Bongi Mbonambi was born in Bohlokong. Economy Bethlehem is a retail, medical, and educational hub for