By the end of the seventeenth century, this garden path had become a central walkway in the everyday dynamics of the colony where it connected race, class, and gender. Enslaved people carried the produce from the gardens in the upper Table Valley to the city, while washerwomen walked up to do laundry at the mountain streams. Government Avenue became Adderley Street and functioned as an axis in the colonial infrastructure. It became a ‘promenade’ where the colonial elite strolled to ‘see and be seen’. Because free black women also strolled here, ordinances were issued in 1756 and 1790 that forbade them to be “as well dressed as the wives of respectable citizens.” They also had to wear passes. Between 1820 and 1828, enslaved people who were no longer useful to the colony were taken to the nearby menagerie behind the Lion’s Gate in the Company Garden to live with lions and a tiger. The menagerie closed in 1838.