Country South Africa District Umzinyathi Established 1867 Area code 034 | Province KwaZulu-Natal Municipality Msinga Postal code (street) 3020 Local time Thursday 7:17 PM | |
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Pomeroy a small town in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Map of Pomeroy, South Africa
Town some 72 km north of Greytown and 56 km south-south-east of Dundee. The town was named Pomeroy after Sir George Pomeroy Colley who led the ill-fated British force during the Battle of Majuba Hill in 1881.
It was established as the Gordon Memorial Mission in 1867 in memory of James Henry Hamilton-Gordon, the son of George Hamilton-Gordon, 5th Earl of Aberdeen. The mission worked with the Zulus.
References
Pomeroy, KwaZulu-Natal Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA