Salisbury
Salisbury city was founded in 1890 by the Pioneer Column, a small
military force of the British South Africa Company, and named Fort
Salisbury after the British Prime Minister Lord Salisbury. Company
administrators demarcated the city and ran it until Southern Rhodesia
achieved responsible government in 1923. Salisbury was thereafter the
seat of the Southern Rhodesian (later Rhodesian) government and, between
1953 and 1963, the capital of the Central African Federation.
The Pioneer Column, a military volunteer force of settlers organised by
Cecil Rhodes, founded the city on 12 September 1890 as a fort. They
originally named the city Fort Salisbury after The 3rd Marquess of
Salisbury, then British Prime Minister, and it subsequently became known
simply as Salisbury. The Salisbury Polo Club was formed in 1896. It was
declared to be a municipality in 1897 and it became a city in 1935.
1927 William Bain, Grand Hotel & Prince Edward School
1900's Commercial Hotel
