Blairgowrie, Gauteng

Blairgowrie is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa.

It is located in Region B of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality South Africa.

[2] Prior to the discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand in 1886, the future suburb lay on land on one of the original farms that make up Johannesburg, called Klipfontein.

[3]: 70  The farm was bought by William Grey Rattray in 1890 and renamed it Craighall.

[3]: 70  In 1928, his daughter would rename part of the land on the farm after her father, Rattray's birthplace, Blairgowrie in Scotland in Britain.