Carolina is a town situated on the
Johannesburg to
Swaziland route in
Mpumalanga province in
South Africa. It is a mixed farming and on a small scale
coal and precious stone mining community. It was established by Cornelius Coetzee as a permanent outspan for wagons when
gold was discovered in
1883 in
Barberton and named after his wife Carolina. It was rebuilt after it was razed during the
Second Boer War. The
Komati Gorge and associated
Komati River are situated in the vicinity of Carolina.
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