VALPARAI PRINCESS OF HILLS:
Hill Station view
OVERVIEW OF VALPARAI:
Valparai is located above 3500 feet sea level in Anamalai
hills range of western ghats. Valparai is also known as
princess of hills.its average ratio of men and women here is 1019 females to
1000 male and which is much above national average of 1000 males equal to 924
females.
Valparai Town |
HISTORY OF VALPARAI:
In 1846 Ramasamy Mudaliyar
started coffee estate in valparai. At the time of Ramasamy Mudaliyar ,in 1864
karnatic coffee company began coffee plantation
in Valparai. After 10 years because of loss and some other factors. At the
time of british east india company, hear that prince of wales(the future edward
vii) is coming to this hills,in 1875, the Britain soldiers built guest house and
roads and completed. Suddenly the prince of wales visit was cancelled .
Old tea factory near Valparai |
Then after late 1890 wintill and norton bought a huge portion
of land from the madras sate government from the british raj. And the land they
checked the soil from which can be cultivated they found. After that wintill
deforested the whole place this also called as poonachi malai.
Water Fall estate hill |
Wintill deforested and planted
tea and coffee.for the plantation purpose one of the experienced planter
crawler marsh arrived from britain .he is also known as father of anamalai’s
or father of Valparai, at the time of job his salary is about 250 rupees.
Poonachimalai |
Now also you can see the statue
of crawler marsh erected in the kaverkal
estates, this place is famous for midst and coldest place. This place also
ranks second after the Chirapunji because of rainfall in chinnakallar area.
LIST OF PLACES TO VISIT IN VALPARAI ARE:
There are nearly 56 estates are
there in Valparai its also known as Anamalai 56 estates which comes under the coimbatore district.From coimbatore it is 108 km
distance .
Some of the tea and coffee
producing company’s are ;
Peria karamalai tea factory
private limited,
Tamilnadu tea plantation
corporation
The bombay burma trading
corporation limited
Tata tea produce ltd
Upasi tea produce ltd
Parry agro tea produce ltd
Tea estates india limited
Wood briar private limited
Jayshree tea industries (birla
owned company)
N.t.p.c tea limited
Puthuthootam tea estate
Waterfall tea estates ltd,
The indira gandhi wildlife
sanctury in Valparai
Valparai belongs to Tamilnadu and
which comes under the manchester of south india coimbatore.
In Valparai avg literacy is
78.54% as compared to the national avg of 72%.
Hill Station view
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