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Encyclopedia Britannica



BARBERTON

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 386 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BAI-BAR
BARBERTON , a town of the Transvaal, 283 M. by
rail
  (175 m. in a direct line) E. of
Pretoria
  and 136 m. W.N.W. of Delagoa Bay. Pop. (1904) 2433, of whom 1214 were whites. Barberton lies 2825 ft. above the sea and is built on the side of a valley named De Kaap, from a bold headland of the
Drakensberg
  which towers above it. The
chief
  town of a
district
  of the same name, it owes its existence to the discovery of gold in the Kaap valley, and
dates
  from 1886. There are several fine public buildings grouped mainly round President Square. The town is connected with the Lourenco Marques-
Pretoria
  trunk railway by a branch line, 35 M.
long
 ,- which runs N.E. through fine mountainous country and joins the
main
  line at Kaapmuiden. During the war of 18991902 the Boers were driven out of Barberton (13th of September 1900) by General (afterwards Sir John) French.


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