Roughly 25 km south east of Welkom is the little goldmining community of Virginia, named after the state in America by Louis Seymour, a mechanical and mining engineer who scratched the name of his birthplace on a boulder close to where a railway siding was subsequently built. Years later, after the discovery of gold in 1955 the emergence of a town took on the name of the railway siding. Life ... cont.
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