Blairgowrie is a suburb of

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situated in Region B of the

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South Africa. Named after the town of Blairgowrie in

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, the suburb is Johannesburg's second-largest by land area. The suburb has an active community association called the Blairgowrie Community Association.

History

Prior to the discovery of gold on the

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in 1886, the future suburb lay on land on one of the original farms that make up

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, called ''Klipfontein''. The farm was bought by William Grey Rattray in 1890 and renamed it Craighall. In 1928, his daughter would rename part of the land on the farm after her father, Rattray's birthplace, Blairgowrie in Scotland in Britain. The suburb consisted of 406 stands over 56 ha and was established in 1941.

References

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