Name:Arnoldton
Google count:146 for Arnoldton
Date: 1 July 2008
Historic fact:
The East London Museum ornithologist Carl Vernon says in his computerised research on place names (Klopp) that a temporary military fortification was set up at Amalinda in 1856 to protect the wagon route between East London and King William's Town. It was possibly at Arnoldton, formerly the old Amalinda station on the farm Amalinda Park and a postcart port of call, or at an old police post where Crewe Primary School now stood.
Carl suggested the word was possibly a corruption of amaLinde, which signified the low mounds and depressions reputedly formed by big earthworms that were a feature of the landscape between King William's Town and Debe Nek.
Other interesting info:
EAST LONDON -- Groceries worth R260 were taken from a Reeston resident at the Arnoldton railway station on Friday, police said yesterday. ...
www.dispatch.co.za/1998/06/29/easterncape/index.html
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