Bordertown to Adelaide Railway
The Register Adelaide: Monday, May 3, 1886. OPENING OF THE BORDER RAILWAY The ceremony of opening for traffic the railway between Adelaide and the Victorian Border was successfully accomplished on Saturday. The Chief Secretary, in the absence through illness of the Commissioner of Public Work... more

Bordertown Railway Station
21st Jan 2008 The historic railway station building at Bordertown is in bad shape. The substantial stone structure has been left to disintegrate, be defaced with grafitti and eaten by white ants. With so few historically important buildings remaining in the district, it is a shame to see this bu... more

"Oil at Tintinara" The Register 15 March 1921
Indications of oil at Tintinara are reported in the Register, 15 March 1921, page 9d. The late Mr William Brayley... always maintained that sooner or later oil would be found at Tintinara. As a boy he worked with the original owners of the old head station and they then used to get a substance in... more

Tintinara - Nomenclature
According to local reports from the early 1900's, the name of a local Aborigine was 'Tin-Tin' and the suffix ara was added to it. (There is an Aboriginal word tinyara meaning 'boy', 'lad', 'youth'.) However, a more convincing explanation is that it is derived from tinlinyara, the Aboriginal name for... more

History of Naracoorte and District
At Naracoorte the "cockatooers" sold out, the number of farmer's homesteads diminished and the great grazing properties grew larger. This was not owing, except in a limited degree, to dummyism, but to the character of the soil surrounding Naracoorte. It was good grass country but would not stand man... more