Circa 1890. The Geary Cottage (22 Rawson Street). This Victorian cottage was the home of Captain William John Geary, his wife Francis and children. Captain Geary was captain of the schooner Eaglet when it first arrived in Cape Town in 1872, which was later wrecked in Plettenberg Bay in 1874. He subsequently purchased the 99 ton schooner Hettie, named after his daughter, which plied the Southern Cape shoreline and further, until it was wrecked in a storm in 1885. He returned to his family in Knysna. In 1893 he ran the Commercial Hotel in the Millwood Goldfields but returned to Knysna in 1898 where he fulfilled the role of Wharf master and Outdoor Customs Officer at the Town Jetty. He died in 1919. Geo. Parkes & Sons purchased the property from his daughter and it became the home of an employee Faan Brown.