Marble Hall (J 7)

Name: Marble Hall

Marble Hall lies ideally in the Cultural Heartland of the Mpumalanga Province in South Africa. Marble deposits were discovered here in 1920 by Christoffel Visagie and family while on a hunting trip from Pretoria. Soon, The Marble Lime Company was developed to work the beautiful deposit in 1929. Marble Hall developed in 1942 and was originally known as Marmerhol, meaning Marble Hole. Mr. Visagie took some English speaking people to the site because they wanted to see the “Marble Hole”.


Mr. Visagie’s English was not very good and he spoke of “Marble Hol” instead of “ Marble Hole”. This became “ Marble Hall” - although there had originally been no mention of a “hall”. Marble is not being quarried here anymore.


. Today, Marble Hall is known as the agricultural centre of the area and is the residential base for all the workers of the marble lime mine situated here.


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