Shume

4°42′0″S 38°13′0″E

Neu-Hornow, c. 1910.

Nearby mountains, c. 1910.

Shume is a town in Tanzania in the Usambara Mountains in Lushoto District of Tanga Region. It was formerly known as New Hornow (German: Neu-Hornow) and was the location of a sawmill during the country's colonial period. Around 1910, a cable railway was constructed to link the mill with the Usambara line to permit export to Germany.

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