Saron is a town in the

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province of

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. A Mission Station can be found at the foot of the Saronsberg in the

Tulbagh Tulbagh (), previously named Roodezand, then Land van Waveren later in 1804 named after Cape of Good Hope Governor Ryk Tulbagh, is a town located in the "Land van Waveren" mountain basin (also known as the Tulbagh basin), in the Cape Winelands ...

district, about 20 km south of Porterville. The Mission Station was established by the

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in 1848 by Johannes Heinrich Kulpmann; it was later taken over by the

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in 1945. The name, Afrikaans for Sharon, is of Biblical origin, meaning 'flats' or 'plain'. On 30 November 2013,

Heritage Western Cape Heritage Western Cape (HWC) is a provincial heritage resources authority established by the Minister of Cultural Affairs and Sport of the government of the Western Cape province in South Africa. It is a public entity set up under the terms of ...

declared the historic core of the Saron Mission Station as a provincial heritage site. Province of the Western Cape Provincial Gazette, No. 7202, Cape Town, 29 November 2013, pp.3178-3180

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{{Cape Winelands District Municipality Populated places in the Drakenstein Local Municipality 1848 establishments in the Cape Colony