Corner of Ontdekkers Road & Conrad Street Roodepoort,
530 Ontdekkers Road
Roodepoort
Gauteng
1709
ZA
Flora Centre is a landmark building situated along Ontdekkers Road in the suburb of Florida North. The Roodepoort region proud itself to have some of the most attractive residential areas in Johannesburg, offering charming suburbs amid rolling hills, many with superb views of the city to the East and the Magaliesburg to the West. One of the most well-known suburbs is Florida. Florida was described as “quite the prettiest township on the whole of the golden reef” in the magazine “AFRICA” in 1948.
The suburb name Florida was the inspiration for the name “Flora Centre”. Legend has it that Florida was named after Florence, daughter of the founder of the township, Hendrik Van der Hoven, that drowned in the Florida Lake shortly before the township was developed, but this claim cannot be verified. It has also been suggested that the Florida was named after Van der Hoven’s wife, Florrie, however, Van der Hoven’s estate records listed two wives neither of whom was Florence or Florrie.
The most credible explanation is found in a letter to the editor of the weekly West Rand Times dated 1976 September 24, in which Ralph C. Brown stated that “the government of the South African Republic….commissioned the land surveyor William Henry Auret Pritchard, to survey [a portion of the farm] Vogelstruisfontein and lay out a township there. …. He was impressed by the profusion of wild flowers blooming in the valley so decided on the Spanish word Florida. This was Pritchard’s own account of the origin of the name when interviewed on the Afrikaans service of the SABC in 1936 during the 50thanniversary celebrations of the Witwatersrand Goldfields. “
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