6th September 2010
The Serviceton Railway Station and Refreshment Rooms, a National Trust listed and Level Three classified building, is to undergo some major repairs. A team employed by VicTrack’s Heritage sector are in the early stages of the work, with scaffolding in place and workers on site. BorderOnline contacted Darren from Direct Property Services on [...]
The Golden Grain Hotel, Built 1906 as the Land of Promise Hotel
The Adelaide Chronicle – June 27th 1929
Mr J.W. Balnaves, proprietor of the Pinnaroo Hotel, died on the 7th June, 1929 from pnuemonia, after an illness lasting five days. He was a well known and respected citizen of [...]
16th July 2010
The Bordertown Wildlife Park was developed in 1968 and initially held a selection of Australian Wildlife; grey kangaroo’s, emu’s, ducks and other native animals.
Mr Lindsey Smith and his family bought a property at The Gap, south of Bordertown and while working with local Bill Hole in 1980, told him about a couple [...]
The Advertiser – Adelaide, SA: Tuesday 1st October 1918, page 7.
Mr John Hunt, whose death occurred at Pooginagoric, at the age of 86, had been 71 years in South Australia. Born in Gillingham, Dorsetshire, in 1832, he arrived in Australia when 15 years of age with his parents and three brothers. The family lived for [...]
Serviceton Railway Station 2008
Serviceton was named after James Service, the then Premier of Victoria and the 12th Premier of that State, serving from 1883-1886. His three years as premier and treasurer were a triumph. His immediate aim was to reform the civil service and railways and to eliminate patronage: the Public Service Board [...]
Custon – The town in the Hundred of Tatiara, 8 km south of Wolseley, proclaimed on 8 December 1881, was named by Governor Jervois after Rev.
William A. Purey-Cust, the elder son of the Dean of York, who married his daughter, Lucy Caroline, in an extravagant Adelaide wedding.
“The place is quite lively from the influx of [...]
Ki Ki – The town, 48 km south-east of Tailem Bend, was proclaimed on 12 June 1913, while its post office opened in January 1912 and its school in
1913 (closed in 1960); until the early 1930s it was conducted in a church. The Tindale papers in the SA Museum says that the name derives from [...]
Cold and Wet – This descriptive name was given to a pastoral station near Coonalpyn; a manganese deposit was reported to have been found there. Its
aboriginal name was purarrung, meaning ‘salt water’. ‘Between Murray Bridge and Tailem Bend thousands of pines, which a few years ago were not
observable from the train, now raise their crests [...]
Coomandook – The ‘Coomandook Run’ (lease no. 1869) was held by John Whyte from 1869 and is an Aboriginal word that H.M. Cooper said means ‘place of different speech’, ie, a name applied by the natives of one area to an adjoining tribal area, where a different language was spoken. Rodney Cockburn records its meaning [...]
The Culburra Store 2010
Culburra – An Aboriginal word meaning ‘plenty of sand’. In 1914, the town of Culburra, 11 km north-west of Tintinara, was laid out by Elliot Aitchison
into 17 allotments on part section R1; its school opened in 1919. The town’s railway station was known, formerly, as ‘Dewson’. (See Dewson)
Dewson – A railway station, [...]
