Pretoria, Village #14 in the Orenburg settlement, was founded in 1903. Owing to the Mennonites’ sympathies with the Afrikaans-speaking Boers, as opposed to ‘the English’, of South Africa, Pretoria was named after the principal city of the Boers. It consisted of a wide dirt road separating two rows of houses, with approximately 15—17 homes on either side of the street. A public school stood on the north side of the street, in the middle of the village, and a high school stood (die Zentralschule) at the end of the street, on the south side.