De Doorns
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De Doorns | ||
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PO box 6875 | ||
Area code | 023 |
De Doorns is situated in the Breede Valley Local Municipality, Cape Winelands District Municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa.
Location
It lies in the
History
The town takes its name from the farm "De Doorns boven aan de Hex Rivier" (‘the thorns on the upper Hex River’), known as early as 1725. The area was declared a sub-drosty of Tulbagh in 1819 and the farm became the seat of the area's own drostdy in 1822.
The De Doorns farm was bought by the government of
The area around the town became an important region for table grape farming. It had the necessary infrastructure for exporting its produce, and the longest harvest season in the world - December to April. During the second
A village management board was instituted for De Doorns in 1933 and municipal status attained in 1951.[5]
References
- ^ a b c d Sum of the Main Places De Doorns, Hassie Square and Ekupumeleni from Census 2011.
- ISBN 1770225684
- ISBN 0-7981-1760-5
- ISBN 1482803976
- ^ "Dictionary of Southern African Place Names (Public Domain)". Human Science Research Council. p. 132.