Clarkson, South Africa

Place in Eastern Cape, South Africa

Clarkson is a town in Kou-Kamma Local Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.

Moravian Mission village in the former Humansdorp district, 26 km south-east of Assegaaibos station and 60 km west of Humansdorp. A mission station was established by Bishop Hans Peter Hallbeck in 1839 and named after Thomas Clarkson who helped abolish the slave-trade.^[2][3]

References

1. "Main Place Clarkson". Census 2011.
2. Raper, Peter E. (1987). Dictionary of Southern African Place Names. Internet Archive. p. 118. Retrieved 28 August 2013.
3. "Clarkson, Eastern Cape | South African History Online".