Marble Hall is a town in the south of the Limpopo province of

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. It was formerly in Mpumalanga province. Marble Hall is a village 26 km north-west of Groblersdal and 96 km south-south-east of Mokopane on the N11 National Route. Laid out in 1942 and proclaimed a township in January 1945, it owes its development to the Marble Lime Mine. Its name is said to be an adaptation of ‘marble hole’, where fifteen varieties of marble occur.

History

While on a hunting expedition from

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, Matthew Greeff and his dog discovered a hole containing

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in 1920. In 1929 the

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came in to work on the deposits and then, in 1942, a town was developed and known as Materhol (

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for ''Matthews Hole''). Soon the town's name was changed to Marble Hall.www.sa-venues.com
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