Ghora Gali

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Ghora Gali
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Presidency: Bengal
Coordinates: 33.83, 73.35
Altitude: 1,691 m (5,500 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name: Ghora Gali
State/Province: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Country: Pakistan
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Ghora Gali was a hill station, located in Abbottabad tehsil, Hazara District, North West Frontier Province (NWFP), close to Murree, another hill station.


Education

  • One of the Lawrence Military Asylums (now Lawrence College) was founded here in 1860 to provide education for the orphans of British soldiers in India.


Business

Brewery Ruins
  • The Murree Brewery was estalished here in 1860. There is a contemporary photograph of the brewery held in the Bellew Collection at the British Library. The building was destroyed during the Partition riots in 1947. However, the business still exists with its office in Rawalpindi.

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