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Encyclopedia Britannica



STANDERTON

This article appears in Volume V25, Page 772 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SOU-STE
STANDERTON , a town of the Transvaal, 114 M. S.E. of Johannesburg, on the railway from that city, via Newcastle to Durban, distant 369 m. Pop. (1904), 4589, of whom 2136' were
white
 . Standerton is 5025 ft. above the sea and is built on the north bank of the Vaal, here spanned by two fine bridges. It is the
chief
  town of a
district
  of the same name and the 'centre of an important agricultural and
pastoral
  region. A government
stud
  farm is maintained here. In the neighbourhood are coal-
fields
 . The name of the town is derived from that of the former owner of the site, an Adrian Stander, who fought against the British at Boomplaats in 1848. The town was laid out' in 187o. Since 1903 it has been governed by a municipality.


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