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1590: 69: 99: 665:. In 1946 there appears have been conflicting suggestions of why the town was called "Estcourt" - one body of opinion favouring the view that the town was named after Captain Estcourt, a member of the party who established the military outpost in 1847 and the other favouring the view that the town was named after Thomas Estcourt MP in 1863. Pearce, after extensive research which was backed up by the Ralfe family legend, supported the latter view which is now the accepted view. 129: 641:. On 4 December that year a military post known as Bushman's River Post was established on a hill dominating the ford, whilst at the same time a village known as Bushman's River was established across the river. On 4 January 1848 the Surveyor General recommended that the seat for the new magisterial district of Impofane be located at Bushmans River Drift. Initially the recommendation was ignored and the magistracy was located at 52: 136: 106: 76: 796:, a Byrne settler and dairy industry pioneer, established a milk processing plant in Estcourt under the name of the Natal Creamery Ltd. This factory was located adjacent to the railway station. Baynes died in 1925 and in 1927 the factory, which by this time was owned by South African Condensed Milk Ltd. was bought by 689:
After a number of attempts to establish private schools had failed due to lack of support, the town's first government school, the Estcourt Government School was established in 1886 with an initial role of 45 children. In accordance with the prevailing colonial policy, the school only admitted pupils
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area in 1880, some 100 km north of Estcourt led to the building of a railway line to link the coalfields with Durban. In 1885 the railway reached Estcourt and a bridge that is still in use today was built across the Bushman's River. The completion of the line to the coalfields the following year
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Harry William Lambert, the Lambert Park in Estcourt named after him. Mayor of Estcourt 1948/49, arriving in South Africa from Edinburgh Scotland with his wife Jessie in 1920, dedicated his services to developing and manufacturing the Eskort Bacon Factory (the Farmers' Co-operative Bacon Factory)
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supplied over one million tins of sausages to the Allied forces all over the world and over 12 tonnes of bacon weekly to convoys calling at Durban harbour. A sister plant was built in Heidelberg and in 1967 the Eskort brand was the largest processed meat brand in South Africa. In 1998 the company
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era, Esctourt was a predominantly white and Asian town. The nearby Wembezi township was home to a large black population. In 1995 these two areas were incorporated into a transitional local council prior to the setting up of the uMtshezi Municipality. The new council continues to display the old
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buildings are strong and substantial, being for the most part constructed of hewn stone. A fort crowns the hill to the southward. There are in the town three churches, four hotels, and at the station a railway bar, A commodious sanatorium in connection with the Roman Catholic Mission has recently
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church was built on the banks of the Bushman's River, and Fort Durnford was built in 1874 by Lt-Col Durnford, a military engineer, as a base for the Natal Mounted Police. The fort became a substantial stronghold, and was used to protect transport riders and the herds of cattle driven across the
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factory in Estcourt. Masonite was a hardboard product developed in the United States in 1924 by William H. Mason. The mill is in Estcourt, but its headquarters are in Durban and uses timber harvested from 21 922 ha of productive commercial plantations owned by the company. The mill currently
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and marketed its products under the brand name Eskort. In August 1920, the company secured the services of Mr. H.W. Lambert of Scotland as 'sausage maker', thereby starting a tradition for quality sausages whose reputation has since become world famous. The following year the factory commenced
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By the 1920s the school had expanded to 226 children and in 1924 four children sat the matriculation exam. This sparked a growth in demand for secondary education, and in 1927 the school was split into two - Estcourt Junior School retaining the old school building and
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At the turn of the century, the Estcourt Government School had about 100 children and offered formal education only at primary level, although the occasional bright student was coached at secondary level to enable them to enter university.
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a South African town—that is to say, it is a collection of about three hundred detached stone or corrugated iron houses, nearly all one-storied, arranged along two broad streets—for space is plentiful—or straggling away towards the
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During the twentieth century, Estcourt developed from being a market town serving the local farming community to one in which the products from the farming community were used in the manufacture of consumer products.
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was constructed on the Bushman's River some 2 km upstream from the town of Estcourt. The dam was designed to irrigate 3,000 ha of land that lay upstream from the river's confluence with the Tugela River.
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After the Second World War, both schools continued to grow and in 1960 a second primary school - Drakensview Primary School - was built to accommodate the overflow from the Estcourt Junior School.
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crossing. In earlier years the main road, later to become the N3, passed through the town. The town itself is 1196 m above sea level and lies in the hilly country that dominates most of the
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broke out on 11 October 1899, the Boer forces had 21,000 men ready to invade the Colony of Natal. Ranged against them, the British had 13,000 men. The Boers under the command of
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after the war the school was unable to survive and the sanatorium had to complete with a nursing home that was run by one of the two doctors in the town. Changing attitudes after
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In August 1917 the Farmer's Co-operative Bacon Factory Limited was founded and the building of the factory commenced. The factory was opened on 6 June 1918 by the Prime Minister
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In the last census of the century, taken in 1991, the population of Esctourt was recorded as being approximately 3 407 whites, 710 coloureds, 5 432 Asians and 1 296 blacks.
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to build his empire, which led to a depopulation of the area. Thus, when the white settlers first arrived in the Estcourt area, the land appeared to be almost uninhabited.
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Estcourt coat of arms on its letterheads. In 2008, the estimated population of the uMtshezi Municipality was 57189 blacks, 1726 coloureds, 6155 Asians, and 3244 whites.
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been established near the town. The population is put down at about 300 residents, though on market days, quite a large throng of farmers are to be met in its streets
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and the opening of hospitals run by the Provincial Departments contributed to the order closing its mission and the sanatorium in Estcourt in the late 1960s.
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The settler community was further strengthened by the arrival of the Byrne Settlers - English immigrants whose settlement in the Colony was sponsored by
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families in the town. The sanatorium was well used during the period when the railway line was being constructed and during the Boer War. Due to an
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establishment in Natal staffed mainly by French-speaking nuns from Canada and France. The mission had a school, sanatorium and a chapel for the
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Estcourt became a municipality in 1914. The Augustinian Order of Natal, having been present in the town since the 1890s built a chapel in 1929.
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ford. It is as secure as any castle with drinking water tanks in the basement, a drawbridge, moat and two secret tunnels.
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in 1842, they abandoned their settlements and moved into the interior, leaving Natalia to the British who established the
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As the twentieth century dawned, Estcourt's position as a communications hub was enhanced by the building of the
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in 1907 to enable agricultural produce from Weenen to reach the main cities. (This line was closed in 1983).
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The Royal Engineers and settlement planning in the Cape Colony 1806–1872: Approach, methodology and impact
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and a secular academic curriculum. As of 2018, it is the best performing private school in the district.
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crossed the border into the Natal Colony and rapidly advanced to the Tugela river, laying siege to
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In 1899, when he arrived at Estcourt as a war correspondent, Churchill described the town as "
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settler community and Estcourt, being so close to the Tugela River become a frontier outpost.
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where he introduced the Estcourt pork sausage as well as encouraged quality pig farming.
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encamped on the banks of the Bushmans River in anticipation of securing land right from
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In 1847 Clem Heeley was the owner of an inn and trading store at a ford on the
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The first recorded settlement in the Estcourt area was in 1838 when a group of
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railway line some 160 km north of Durban and 25 km south of the
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The earliest identifiable inhabitants of the Estcourt area were the
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In 1895, the traveller Ingram described Estcourt as having " ...
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passes close to the town, linking it to the rest of South Africa.
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was converted from a cooperative to a limited liability company.
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The mission station itself had been opened in 1892 - the second
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provided Estcourt with a good communications link to the coast.
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community with a combined educational option, offering both
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and processed food factories situated around the town. The
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and the Mooi River. After a Voortrekker retaliation at the
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At some time close to the start of the twentieth century,
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and the Little Bushmans River. It is also on the main
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Sable and Murray - The story of Estcourt High School
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Estcourt, KwaZulu-Natal
Estcourt (disambiguation)
Estcourt railway station
Estcourt is located in KwaZulu-Natal
Estcourt is located in South Africa
Estcourt is located in Africa
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KwaZulu-Natal
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