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Alexandria is a centre of dairy and chicory farming. The town was founded on the farm Oliphantshoek meaning "elephants corner". Oliphantshoek was the most remote area of the Dutch Reformed Church parish of Uitenhage and the Scottish minister of the area, Alexander Smith who came to South Africa in 1823 regularly had to travel to the farm Kerkplaats on the farm of Evert Potgieter. On the 8th January 1854 Olipantshoek became a separate congregation to Uitenhage which was 140kms away.
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