BULAWAYO MEMORIES - OTHER CENTRES

Gatooma

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Foundation stones at Bulawayo Railway History Museum




Railway station 1912 and Gatooma Hotel
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1912 Baker Street - Barclays Bank
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1912 Cam Road - Whightman & C0. Ltd.
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1912 Post Office Stagecoach
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1920's Rhodes Street
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Synagogue 1960 Church and school
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Main Street
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Town Hall                                                                                                  Post Office
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2004 - Hospital                                                                                          Specks Hotel
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The city of Kadoma 'Little Hill) was known as Gatooma until 1982. Gatooma was founded in the 1890s as a mining camp, and constituted under a village management board in 1907. The settlement was named after the nearby kraal of Chief Katuma,[8] who is represented on the town's coat of arms by the mountain bearing his name and the chief's badge of office.

The Specks Hotel was opened in 1907, and Jameson High School started the same year when Amelia Fitt, wife of the first mayor of Kadoma, started to give classes to the town children in her house.

In 1917 Gatooma Municipality was created. A public electricity supply was introduced in Kadoma in 1922.

The Grand Hotel opened in 1925 and had a sprung floor for dancing, the first such floor in Zimbabwe.