 The suburb has its origins as part of an old Witwatersrand farm called "Boschkop", named after the distinctive hill to north of the suburb, which is now the Boschkop Nature Reserve in the suburb of Boskruin.On this land, an old brick farm house was supposedly built on the land in around 1860.In 1903 the farm was owned by a J. Labuschagne and he sold part of the original land and farm house to John Dale Lace.