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Marble Hall started out as an unusual hole called Marble Hole. Marble Hole claimed the lives of many animals that were trapped trying to reach the water at the bottom. In 1913 Christoffel Visagie came down with a fever while hunting in the area with his wife. On their way home to Pretoria Mrs Visagie stopped to examine some prominent white rocks. She loaded enough white rock for two gravestones. One for her child that had died recently and the other for her husband who she thought would not survive. She took her load to Tom Taylor, a tombstone maker in Pretoria, who identified the rock as first-class marble. Christoffel Visagie recovered and he and Tom Taylor mined marble from Marble Hole. The site was abandoned because of transportation difficulties. The Marble Lime Company was formed in 1929 to work Marble Hole and in 1936 a railway was built to the mine. Fifteen varieties of marble have been found in and around Marble Hall. |
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