 But it was not until 31 December 1687 that the first organised group of Huguenots set sail from the Netherlands to the Dutch East India Company post at the Cape of Good Hope.<ref name="FRC-7"></ref> The largest portion of the Huguenots to settle in the Cape arrived between 1688 and 1689 in seven ships as part of the organised migration, but quite a few arrived as late as 1700; thereafter, the numbers declined and only small groups arrived at a time.<ref name="FRC-10"></ref>
Many of these settlers were given land in an area that was later called "Franschhoek" (Dutch for "French Corner"), in the present-day Western Cape province of South Africa.A large monument to commemorate the arrival of the Huguenots in South Africa was inaugurated on 7 April 1948 at Franschhoek.The Huguenot Memorial Museum was also erected there and opened in 1957.