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The Boksburg Historical Association hosted an informative meeting on February 3 at Alan Woodrow Park Retirement Village with the topic of discussion being the origin of Boksburg's street names.He was a resident of the town from 1928 until 1954 and attended both St Dominic’s and CBC schools and worked at ERPM until 1964.
•Trichardt Road: This road was once called Hoofdweg. The name is said to have changed when the centenary celebrations of the Great Trek were held and an ox-wagon train went through town on a route close to that taken by Louis Trichardt on his way north. The section in Boksburg North, previously known as 6th Avenue was also changed.
• Montagu Street: Montagu White was an American Boer sympathiser and Boksburg’s first mining commissioner. The Lake was his idea. It was often referred to as White’s folly . He also had 40 000 trees planted in the Plantation area.
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