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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 See also:

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

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