Dalton is a village in east of
New Hanover and south of
Greytown in the
uMshwati Local Municipality of
KwaZulu-Natal
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South Africa
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The town is named after
North Dalton in Yorkshire, the hometown of Henry Boast, who organized an immigration to Natal in 1850 of people from Yorkshire. It is the railway junction for the Noodsberg line.
The main local industry is the production of
sugarcane
Sugarcane or sugar cane is a species of (often hybrid) tall, Perennial plant, perennial grass (in the genus ''Saccharum'', tribe Andropogoneae) that is used for sugar Sugar industry, production. The plants are 2–6 m (6–20 ft) tall with ...
, with the
Union Cooperative and
Illovo Noodsberg mills nearby.
References
Populated places in the uMshwathi Local Municipality
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