History
While on a hunting expedition from Pretoria, Christoffel Visagie and his family discovered a hole containing marble in 1920. In 1929 the Marble Lime Company came in to work on the deposits and then, in 1942, a town was developed and known as Marmerhol (Afrikaans for Marble Hole). During the Anglo-Boer war the town's name was anglicised to Marble Hall (Greg Deegan comments "the Anglo Boer war took place between 1899 and 1902 - it therefore doesn't make sense that the town's name was anglicised 40 years before it was begun")
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