Albertville is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region B of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

History

The suburb is named after the previous landowner Hendrick Abraham Alberts with the land being surveyed in 1896.[2] The land is situated on a portion of an old Witwatersrand farm called Waterval.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Sub Place Albertville". Census 2011.
  2. 1 2 Raper, Peter E.; Moller, Lucie A.; du Plessis, Theodorus L. (2014). Dictionary of Southern African Place Names. Jonathan Ball Publishers. p. 1412. ISBN 9781868425501.


source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albertville,_Gauteng