Salisbury Claims
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Salisbury Claims | |
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Coordinates: 26°12′36″S 28°02′42″E / 26.210°S 28.045°E / -26.210; 28.045 | |
Country | South Africa |
Province | Gauteng |
Municipality | City of Johannesburg |
Established | 1921 |
Time zone | UTC+2 (SAST) |
Postal code (street) | 2001 |
Salisbury Claims is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.
History
[edit]This small suburb lies just south of the Johannesburg CBD with Marshalltown to the north and Wemmer to the south.[1] It was proclaimed a suburb on 26 October 1921.[1] Prior to the discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand in 1886, the suburb lay on land on one of the original farms that make up Johannesburg, called Turffontein.[1] Lying close to the Main Reef gold deposits, parts of the farm were proclaimed as a gold claim with the mine eventually called Salisbury Gold Mining Company.[1] The area is now a mix of commercial and light industrial usage.
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