Vredefort

Vredefort (, ) is a small farming town in the Free State province of South Africa with cattle, peanuts, sorghum, sunflowers and maize being farmed. It is home to 3,000 residents.

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Settlement.name: Vredefort
Settlement.image_skyline: Nederduitse Gereformeerde Church Vredefort-005.jpg
Settlement.image_caption: Nederduitse Gereformeerde Church, Church Street, Vredefort
Settlement.pushpin_map: South Africa Free State#South Africa
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: South Africa
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Province
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Free State
Settlement.subdivision_type2: District
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Fezile Dabi
Settlement.subdivision_type3: Municipality
Settlement.subdivision_name3: Ngwathe
Settlement.subdivision_type4: Main Place
Settlement.established_title: Established
Settlement.established_date: 1878
Settlement.leader_title: Councillor
Settlement.area_total_km2: 21.4
Settlement.population_total: 14619

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Elevation: 1425
Image: Nederduitse Gereformeerde Church Vredefort-005.jpg
Dialing code: 056

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postal code: 9595
inception: 1878-01-01
Commons gallery: Vredefort
Commons category: Vredefort

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Vredefort (, ) is a small farming town in the Free State province of South Africa with cattle, peanuts, sorghum, sunflowers and maize being farmed. It is home to 3,000 residents.

The town was established in 1876 on a farm called Visgat, on the Vredefort impact structure, the largest and oldest visible bolide impact crater in the world (with a diameter of ). It was this approximately wide bolide that led to the preservation of the gold-bearing reefs of the Free State some 2.02 billion years ago. The town's name, which translates to "peace fort" in Afrikaans and Dutch, was derived from the peaceful conclusion to a threatened war between the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. The British built a concentration camp here during the Second Boer War to house Boer women and children.