Greendale is an
affluent
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suburb
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in eastern
Harare
Harare ( ), formerly Salisbury, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Zimbabwe. The city proper has an area of , a population of 1,849,600 as of the 2022 Zimbabwe census, 2022 census and an estimated 2,487,209 people in its metrop ...
,
Zimbabwe
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Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Bots ...
, noted for its residents of Shona and Indian descent.
History
A Certificate of Occupation and residence was granted to a
German
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immigrant named, George Haupt, and Greendale Farm was transferred to Haupt and Henry Spreaker trading as Haupt and Co. on 17 December 1892. Haupt, an engineer from the
Rhine Valley
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Particular valleys of the Rhine or any of its sections:
* Alpine Rhine Valley
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, was one of the first people to follow the occupation forces into the country. It is not known how the name, Greendale came about, but 1890 saw considerable rainfall (Father Hartmann measured it at 63 inches, or about twice our normal mean average of 850mm a year) – a record that stood until the 2008-2009 rain season.
By the early 1900s the area was annexed to the city of Harare and earmarked for
residential
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settlement.
See also
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Highlands
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References
Suburbs of Harare
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