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Before the city of Harare was established in 1890, the area of today's neighborhood was home to the Shona-speaking, Zezuru people. In the 1890s, the area was subdivided into local tracts which sat just above the original planned City of Salisbury, and were either undeveloped or only lightly farmed.
Harare (/ h ə ˈ r ɑːr eɪ / hə-RAR-ay), [5] formerly Salisbury, is the capital and largest city of Zimbabwe.The city proper has an area of 982.3 km 2 (379.3 sq mi), a population of 1,849,600 as of the 2022 census [6] and an estimated 2,487,209 people in its metropolitan province. [6]
The street names in the suburb are all of former mayors of Harare. William Harvey Brown (1909–1910), J. Van Praagh (1900–1901), James Lawson (1913), William Ernest Fairbridge (1897–1898 first mayor of Salisbury) and H. L. Lezard (1914–15).
Harare started from a small fort by the Kopje and Causeway stream; and expanded north and east towards Mount Hampden. The main railway to Bulawayo is located just south of the CBD, which is where Arcadia developed as the housing for mixed race and Asian people to provide cheap labour for industry nearby. [3] Arcadia was a mid-20th century suburb.
Rotten Row is a road and historic district located in the west-central section of downtown Harare, Zimbabwe. It begins at the intersection of Prince Edward Street and Samora Machel Avenue and runs to the flyover where it borders Mbare on Cripps Road. The vast majority of the district is occupied by various national and municipal courthouses and ...
Kuwadzana is a residential suburb in Harare, Zimbabwe. It was originally known as Parkridge Fontainebleau. [1] It lies on the city's western border, just south of the main Harare-Bulawayo road. [2] In the 1980s, Kuwadzana was selected for slum upgrading on the site and services model. [1] As of 2012, the population was 26,926. [3]
Hillside is a residential area in southeast Harare, Zimbabwe. The estimate terrain elevation above sea level is 1506 metres. The estimate terrain elevation above sea level is 1506 metres. Often compared to nearby, Arcadia and Braesaide, it is a historically working class, Coloured (mixed race) area located just southeast of the CBD and the ...
Mount Pleasant is located in the northern part of Harare, and is bordered by the Vainona, Pomona, Emerald Hill, Belgravia, and Marlborough suburbs.From the postwar era to the 1980s, generations of wealthy residents built dozens of stately homes in the area in various styles, including Beaux-Arts architecture, Edwardian, Cape Dutch and post-war modern styles. [4]