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The settlers in the very early days included some remarkable characters.
Among the earliest of them all was Joao Albasini, from Portugal, who established a little kingdom of his own on the banks of the Sabie River in 1870 and through coffee growing and ‘recruiting’ labour for the mines became a very wealthy man.
There was also Alois Nellmapius, the Hungarian, who had been a digger at Pilgrim’s Rest and who finally became one of the biggest landowners in the old Republic.
Other early settlers were Henry Glynn and his renowned son, Henry Thomas Glynn, a hunter, trader, and prospector who founded the Glynn’s Lydenburg Gold Mining Company.
Another famous pioneer was
Hugh Lanion Hall who settled on the Crocodile River and founded H.L. Hall, Limited. His farming enterprise embraced almost everything that could be grown in the Lowveld.
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