Cullinan
Cullinan Mine
CULLINAN, Gauteng. Originally as Mining township with a railway station, near the Premier Mine, in the district of Cullinan, 30 miles (48 km) by rail and 21 miles (34 km) by road east of Pretoria. It is the terminus of a branch railway that joins the main line to Delagoa Bay at Rayton. It was founded in 1902 on a portion of the farm Elandsfontein and named after Sir Thomas Cullinan, who opened up the Premier Mine. During the Second World War the farm Zonderwater, near the mine, was used as a military training centre, with a large camp for prisoners of war, especially Italians. The Zonderwater work Colony in Cullinan was one of the original treatment clinics for Alcoholics Anonymous was opened there in 1947 and renamed to become Magaliesoord in 1964. The also used to be a big rehabilitation centre for alcoholics and a hospital for tuberculosis.
District of Cullinan
District. Area 1,265 sq miles (3 ,176 sq km). The magisterial district was proclaimed on 27 Aug. 1965, having been until then part of the district of Bronkhorstspruit. In the west it has common borders with Pretoria and Warmbaths, in the east with Bronkhorstspruit and Groblersdal, while it borders on Waterberg in the north. Besides the main town of Cullinan with the Premier Mine, it includes centres like Donkerhoek, Bynespoort, Rayton and Sonderwater. The Elands and Kameel Rivers run through the district, which produced only 35,000 bags of maize in 1965/6 and possessed roughly 14,000 head of cattle and 14,000 sheep.