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In 1657, five years after the establishment of the Cape settlement, a party under Abraham Gabbema arrived in the Berg River Valley to look for trading opportunities with the Khoikhoi, and search for the legendary gold of Monomotapa.
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With treasure on the brain, they awoke after a rainy night to see the silvery dome of granite dominating the valley; which they dubbed Peerlbergh (pearl mountain), which in its modified form, Paarl, became the name of the town.
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Thirty years later, the commander of the Cape, Simon van der Stel, granted strips of the Khoikhoi lands on the slopes of Paarl Mountain to French Huguenot and Dutch settlers.
By the time Paarl was granted town status in 1840, it was still an outpost at the edge of the Drakenstein Mountains, a flourishing wagon-making and last-stop provisioning centre.
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