Gatooma
Foundation stones at Bulawayo Railway History
Museum
Railway station 1912 and Gatooma Hotel
1912 Baker Street - Barclays Bank
1912 Cam Road - Whightman & C0. Ltd.
1912 Post Office Stagecoach
1920's Rhodes Street
Synagogue 1960 Church and school
Main Street
Town Hall Post Office
2004 - Hospital
Specks Hotel
The city of Kadoma 'Little Hill) was known as Gatooma until 1982. Gatooma was founded
in the 1890s as a mining camp, and constituted under a village
management board in 1907. The settlement was named after the nearby
kraal of Chief Katuma,[8] who is represented on the town's coat of arms
by the mountain bearing his name and the chief's badge of office.
The Specks Hotel was opened in 1907, and Jameson High School started the
same year when Amelia Fitt, wife of the first mayor of Kadoma, started
to give classes to the town children in her house.
In 1917 Gatooma Municipality was created. A public electricity supply
was introduced in Kadoma in 1922.
The Grand Hotel opened in 1925 and had a sprung floor for dancing, the
first such floor in Zimbabwe.