Belfast (J8)

Name: Belfast

Google count: 78,400 for Belfast
Date: 24 July 20008

Historic fact:
The Town Of Belfast

On June 30th, 1890 President Kruger declared the farm Tweefontein “situate in the district of Lydenburg”, and being the property of R. C. O’Neil as a town with the name ‘Belfast’ (Ireland) and that said portion of Tweefontein shall be an urban area.

The Farm Tweefontein measured 3,750 morgen. The erven 120 x 240 ft were surveyed by Peter MacDonald Of these erven 313 were reserved by the Government for its own use, while the remaining 575 were the property of the owner.

Here to we find the president aiming to protect wild life by the proclamation dated April the 28th 1898, which stated that it was prohibited ‘to kill or hunt, shoot or track game or to capture, disperse or otherwise disturb game in the area.

The erection of the Burger Monument in 1886 had all ready made this a meeting place for the whole of the Eastern Transvaal even though it was only used for Festivals and other national gatherings.

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Rail Stories:

In the same year in which Belfast had been declared a township a serious beginning was made with the Dellagoa Bay railway the line was completed as far as Belfast in August 1894.Shortly after the opening of the main railway line a branch line was built to exploit the extensive coalfields surrounding Belfast. Sammy Marks who had acquired all the coal mining rights parallel to the main railway line started mining.

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