Marble Hall
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| Marble Hall | |
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| Country | |
| Province | Limpopo |
| Time zone | SAST (UTC+2) |
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Marble Hall is a small town in the south of the Limpopo province, in South Africa. It was formerley in Mpumalanga provinse.
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While on a hunting expedition from Pretoria, Christoffel Visagie and his family discovered a hole containing marble in 1920. In 1929 the Marble Lime Company came in to work on the deposits and then, in 1942, a town was developed and known as Marmerhol (Afrikaans for Marble Hole). During the Anglo-Boer war the town's name was anglicised to Marble Hall[1]
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Coordinates: 24°58′S 29°18′E / 24.967°S 29.3°E
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