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In 1890 , two Railway surveyors from the state of Virginia in the United States etched the name of their birthplace on a boulder near the farm Merriespruit. When a railway siding was eventually established at this spot, the name was adopted, and it stuck after the discovery of gold in 1955 which resulted in a mushrooming settlement on the banks of the Sand River. In 1988 the Sand River burst its banks and flooded parts of the town. A slime dam just outside of Virginia burst in 1994 sending a ten metre wave of mud through one of the suburbs, killing 11 people and marking a great turnaround in mining politics in South Africa. On the 5 December 2000 , Virginia was incorporated into the Matjhabeng Local Municipality along with the city of Welkom and the towns of Allanridge , Hennenman , Odendaalsrus and Ventersburg . During the Apartheid era, black people were forced to live outside Ventersburg in the location of Meloding. Virginia boasts the place where the ring was made that was featured in The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy . |
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