Grahamstown
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008
Grahamstown city (1991 pop. 19,783), Eastern Cape, SE South Africa. It manufactures pottery and is the commercial center for a rich agricultural region. Founded in 1819 as a military post on Xhosa land, the Grahamstown area was the site of repeated conflict in the early 19th cent. Rhodes Univ. (1904) and the Albany Museum, with collections of prehistoric and natural history materials, are in the city.
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