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Encyclopedia Britannica



VOLKSRUST

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 195 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: VIR-WAT
VOLKSRUST , a town of the Transvaal, 175 M. S.E. of Johannesburg and 308 m. N.N.W. of Durban, Pop. (1904) 2382, of whom 1342 were whites. The town lies at an
elevation
  of 5429 ft. just within the Transvaal frontier and 4 M. N. of the pass through the
Drakensberg
  known as
Laing
 's Nek. It is the centre of a
rich
  agricultural
district
 . It was founded by the Boer government in 1888. As a customs port of entry it was of some importance, and it maintains its position as a distributing depot. It was created a municipality in 1903.
Sandstone
  is quarried in the
district
 .


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