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Barberton (Mining town of the province)

a mining town of the province of Transvaal Union of South Africa, in the De Kaap gold fields. It is situated at the base of a high range of hills 2,500 feet above sea-level, 180 miles E. of Pretoria, and 100 N. W. of Delagoa Bay, with both of which it is connected by railway. In 1886-1887, owing to the discovery of rich gold reefs, there was a rush to the place, and the population soon rose to 8,000 or more; but the superior attraction of the Witwatersrand reefs and the growth of Johannesburg reduced Barberton to a subordinate place.

Pop. about 3,000.