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Pearston
Sign in to savePearston is a small town in the eastern Karoo, in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It lies between Graaff-Reinet and KwaNojoli at the foot of the Coetzeesberge, about north of Port Elizabeth. It falls within the Blue Crane Route Local Municipality and has a population of approximately 4,500 people.
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- Settlement.name
- Pearston
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- Pearston from Voortrekker Street.png
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- Pearston seen from Voortrekker Street.
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- South Africa Eastern Cape#South Africa
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- Country
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- South Africa
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Eastern Cape
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- District
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- Sarah Baartman
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- Municipality
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- Blue Crane Route
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- Main Place
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- Established
- Settlement.established_date
- 1859
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- Councillor
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 32.8
- Settlement.population_total
- 4516
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Pearston is a small town in the eastern Karoo, in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It lies between Graaff-Reinet and KwaNojoli at the foot of the Coetzeesberge, about north of Port Elizabeth. It falls within the Blue Crane Route Local Municipality and has a population of approximately 4,500 people.
==History== In 1850 John Pears, a former professor of Classics at the South African College and the minister of the Dutch Reformed Church in the town of Somerset (now Somerset East) began holding services in the open under a large pear tree on the farm Rustenburg, then the property of Mr Casparus Jacobus Lötter, on the bank of the Voël River. In 1858 the church announced its intention to establish a village named Pearston on that location. A portion of the farm was purchased and lots sold, and the village was officially founded on 21 September 1859. It became a town with municipal government on 3 April 1894.
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