Denver is an industrial suburb in eastern
Johannesburg,
South Africa, on the railway to
Germiston and Hoofrif Road, around 6 km east of City Hall. It borders
Benrose to the west,
Jeppestown and
Malvern to the north,
Cleveland to the east, and the
François Oberholzer Freeway to the south. There is just a small portion of the suburb in the northwest that has residential zoning; otherwise, Denver consists of industrial land and squatter camps both in the west and up north, the latter largely on Hoofrif Road.[citation needed]
Denver was laid out on 25 ha of
Doornfontein farm, like all the eastern suburbs of Johannesburg. Owner F.J. Bezuidenhout, for whom
Bezuidenhout Valley is named, leased the area in 1903 to a J.H. Strutton to grow crops and garden. Denver was later purchased by a business, and in October 1898, it was zoned as a residential township.[citation needed] Before and after the
Second Boer War, several
Americanmining machinery firms built offices there, and it was named after
Denver, capital of
Colorado, as a result.
In the early years, the white population of the area was so large that from 1910 to 1933, there was a constituency in the
Parliament of South Africa which located in the neighborhood.[citation needed]
Denver is an industrial suburb in eastern
Johannesburg,
South Africa, on the railway to
Germiston and Hoofrif Road, around 6 km east of City Hall. It borders
Benrose to the west,
Jeppestown and
Malvern to the north,
Cleveland to the east, and the
François Oberholzer Freeway to the south. There is just a small portion of the suburb in the northwest that has residential zoning; otherwise, Denver consists of industrial land and squatter camps both in the west and up north, the latter largely on Hoofrif Road.[citation needed]
Denver was laid out on 25 ha of
Doornfontein farm, like all the eastern suburbs of Johannesburg. Owner F.J. Bezuidenhout, for whom
Bezuidenhout Valley is named, leased the area in 1903 to a J.H. Strutton to grow crops and garden. Denver was later purchased by a business, and in October 1898, it was zoned as a residential township.[citation needed] Before and after the
Second Boer War, several
Americanmining machinery firms built offices there, and it was named after
Denver, capital of
Colorado, as a result.
In the early years, the white population of the area was so large that from 1910 to 1933, there was a constituency in the
Parliament of South Africa which located in the neighborhood.[citation needed]