Prehistory saw the area inhabited by stone age man who hunted in the area with the location claimed to have the highest concentration of identified
Iron Age sites on the
Witwatersrand with the discovery of artefacts dating back 250,000 years. The
Sotho-Tswana peoples would later settle in the area in the 1400s and would leave the location around 1800 when possibly climate changes and the movement of more militant tribes into the area saw their departure to
Botswana. Their lifestyle consisted of animal husbandry and the growing
millet,
sorghum and later maize imported into Africa by the Portuguese traders. His descendants would eventually sell the farm in 1914 to the Quilliam family who used it for dairy farming and as a piggery. To be called the Vierfontein Dam, work ended on it as the Second Boer War broke out and all that remains across the
spruit is the remains of a
weir. The council asked the residents to form an association to assist the council in the proposed reserves management and was formed as the Klipriviersberg Nature Reserve Association; the nature reserve was proclaimed in 1984. ==Fauna and flora==