Marquard is a small farming town in the Free State province of South Africa that serves Winburg in the northwest.

The town was set up in 1905 by an influential Dutch Reform minister, JJ Marquard, with the help of Christoffel Cornelis Froneman, the commandant of the Orange Free State.

It was established on the farm Varschfontein and attained municipal status in the same year.

The town was named after J J T Marquard, minister of the Dutch Reformed Church in Winburg, who had pleaded for the establishment of the town.

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