- Teronoh
Teronoh (or Tronoh, Ternoh) is a small
tin -mining town located some 30 km south of thePerak state capitalIpoh inMalaysia .The tin-mining industry boom during the early 20th century saw Teronoh grow from a small village into a major town. The centre of the mining field containing the mine of the Tronoh Mines Company, Ltd. was the village of Tronoh. The Tronoh Mines Company Ltd. belonged to
Chung Thye Phin , a rich businessman ("towkay") and last Chinese Kapitan of Perak and Malaya. It was here in Tronoh that Thye Phin's famous deep-shaft mine could be found. [Norman Mosley Penzer. "The Tin Resources of the British Empire". W. Rider (1921). Page 90.]A railway line linking the town and
Ipoh was completed in 1909 and used to transport tin ore. The tracks were dismantled by the Japanese duringWorld War II and were never rebuilt. Shortly after the war ended the tin industry deteriorated, and with it, the importance of the town.The main road that used to cut through town linking Ipoh with the seaside town of
Lumut has been replaced by a new highway bypassing the town. Today Teronoh is a sleepy little town although that may change giving that two universities (Universiti Teknologi Petronas andUniversiti Teknologi MARA ) are in the vicinity.References
External links
* [http://www.utp.edu.my Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP), Teronoh - official website]
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