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STANDERTON

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 772 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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STANDERTON  , a

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

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