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VOLKSRUST

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 195 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VOLKSRUST  , a

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

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