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wholesale122 on Monday, November 09, 2009 3:16:40 AM
It was 30 years after the discovery of this fertile valley that farms
were given to pioneers, shortly before the arrival of
akoya pearl jewelry the Huguenots in
1688. The pioneers started with their work and in 1699 the first water
mill was put to use.
Less than an hour's drive from Cape Town and its golden beaches, lies another one of the Cape's gems … or rather, pearls.
In 1657 Abraham Gabemma set out inland to search for
freshwater pearl necklace new meat resources. It was after a rainstorm when he saw a mountain in the distance, with a giant granite rock which glistened like a wet pearl in the sun.
He named the
freshwater pearl pendant mountain "Peerleberg" (Pearl Mountain), which later became Paarl Mountain and the town that evolved at its base was named Paarl