murraymallee

Bank of Adelaide Karoonda . B26039 State Library of South Australia. 1914.
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Borrika in the Murray Mallee. The original tin public hall. It opened in 1915. It became the supper room of the new stone hall when it opened in 1925.
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Jabuk. The remains of the railway siding and the station railway sign.
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Taplan in the Murray Mallee. The first school opened inthe Institute in 1917. This new government school opened 25 July 1927. Built in stone with red brick quoins now all painted over. It closed in 1967..
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Sandalwood. In the Murray Mallee. Ruins of the state school built in 1928. Closed in 1944. Blackboard on all four walls
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Parilla near Pinnaroo. The state government school. Built around 1930. Closed in 1945.
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Geranium. This Eudunda Farmers General Store was built in 1911. Now disused. Eududna Farmers built a new store in 1963.
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Lowaldie. Plaque memorial to the pioneering families of Lowaldie.
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Sherlock. The old state school room in the Murray Mallee . Built around 1920. Closed in the 1970s and it became a school camp site for some years. Now vacant.
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Mantung. Photograph of the old Mantung railway siding which opened in 1915 with the start of train servcies from Karoonda to Waikerie. Depicted on a town information board.
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Lowaldie in the Murray Mallee. History plaque.
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Galga. Beautiful foundation stone laid for St Pauls Lutheran Church.
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Wunkar In the Murray Mallee. All the remains of the Wunkar railway station and railway yards.The Wanbi to Yinkanie railway line was put through in 1925 and closed in 1971.
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Ngarkat Conservation. Border sign. Pertendi Track to the Victorian border.
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Kalyan in the Murray Mallee. The ruins of the Kalyan stone Hall. A school operated in the hall from 1932 to 1952.
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Sedan. The old Lutheran School built in 1876 and also the residence for the first headmaster.
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Peebinga. It local Aboriginal language means a place of pine trees. These Australian pines are Callitris preissii species. Located at Butchers Soak or waterhole.
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Karoonda in the Murray Mallee. Night illumination on the Karoonda wheat silos. Art work from the SA Living Artists exhibition of August 2020. Illuminations nightly to 9 pm. Changed monthly. A billabong and gum trees..
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Mercunda. State school site plaque. It was held in Mercunda Hall. Mercunda was located on the Karoonda to Waikerie railway line which opened in 1915.
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Peake. The first school in Peake opened in 1910. It moved to the Institute in 1913 then this new school room in 1929. Closed in 1964.
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Sandalwood. Near Karoonda. Ruins of the 1928 built state school. It closed in 1944. Great firepalce in the corner of the room.
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Mantung. Service folder of local Indian who fought for Australia during World War One. Sarn Singh's father was a land owner and farmer of Maggea.
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Galga. The first public hall. Built in 1921 and used for Catholic and Congregational church services. Used as a state school from 1925 to 1966 .
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Mantung. Memorial plaque for the former state school .
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Galga. Plaque to commemorate the state school in Galga Hall from 1925 to 1961. Galga was on the Karoonda to Waikerie railway line which opened in 1915.
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Perponda. Site of the Perponda School which operated in the hall from 1924 to 1942.
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Peebinga. Butchers Soak .Known by the Ngarkat Aboriginal people. Local historial cairn with historical information on Peebinga and other railway sidings..
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Geranium. The workshop and residence of Griffen plumbers and tank builders in Geranium.
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Taplan in the Murray Mallee. Railway cairn and railway items by the former railway station site. The railway from Adelaide reached here in 1913.
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Borrika in the Murray Mallee. The old government school with the flag pole. Built in 1927 and closed in 1941.The first school opened in Borrika in 1915.
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Blanchetown on the River Murray. Lock One begun in 1915 and completed in 1922. The William Randell Lock a pioneer of the paddle steamer trade along the Murray. First of 35 or so locks built..
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Karoonda in the Murray Mallee. Night illumination on the Karoonda wheat silos. Art work from the SA Living Artists exhibition of August 2020. Illuminations nightly to 9 pm. Changed monthly. Pelicans ..
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Sandalwood Hall. This town was established when the railway to Paruna and Renmark came through in 1913. The hall was built in 1923 with a 1972 besser block porch. Methodist church services held here.
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Mantung. Service folder of local Indian who fought for Australia during World War One. Ganessa Singh's father was a land owner and farmer of Maggea.
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Sherlock. The old state school room. Built around 1920. Closed in the 1970s and it became a school camp site for some years. Now vacant.
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Bowhill. Headstone for Pilmore with excellent marble carvings. Bowhill cemetery was established in 1898.
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Wanbi. The old state school built like many schools in the Mallee with large squared Mt Gambier limestone blocks. Same blocks used for Peebinga Paruna etc. Wanbi School operated 1916 to 1966. This building built 1926.
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Paruna. Established in 1912. The old Art Deco style bank. Probably the Savings Bank of South Australia. Built circa 1930.
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Bowhill. Headstone writen in German. Semmler. Bowhill cemetery opened in 1898.
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Taplan in the Murray Mallee. The rear cement rendered structure is the original 1917 Institute. The stone building is the new Institute built in 1924.
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Geranium. This timber framed Methodist Church was built in 1954. Now the Uniting Church.
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Wunkar in the Murray Mallee near Loxton. A state school operated here from 1925 to 1974. Most buildings were transportable weatherboard ones. One cement school room still remains on the site.
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Nildotti on the River Murray. The Lutheran Church. Opened as a church and Lutheran school in 1896 and the school existed until 1917.
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Copeville in the Murray Mallee. Railway siding 1914. Silos erected 1965. Silo art of two Galah parrots funded by farmers Trevor and Beverley Heidrich. Artist Jarrod Loxton.
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Taplan. Outside the Post Office a mural.
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Lameroo. The Crafts and Museum in the old general store built in 1911.
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Ngarkat Conservation Park. At Pertendi Hut a shepherds house built in 1956 is the good map of the park. .
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Taplan. In the Murray Mallee. Wording on the stone memorial cairn near the former railway station site. Railway from Adelaide reached here in 1913.
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Peebinga. Butchers Soak known to the Ngarkat Aboriginal people. One of only two permanent supplies of water in the 275 kms from Bordertown to Renmark. Historical marker information.
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Galga in the Murray Mallee. The railway reached here in 1914.These silos were built 1963. Now disused. Silo art funded by a local farming couple .WW1 Light Horse Brigade Anzac soldier depicted. Artist Jarrad Loxton.
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Taplan. Near the Victorian border. The former Bank of Adelaide.
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Taplan on the Tailem Bend to Renmark railway. Information board about the railway cairn and the rail service to Taplan.
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Rheinthal between Cambrai and Sedan. Was the religious heart of Rhine Villa or Cambrai settlement from 1876 to 1911. Only the cemetery remains and some ruined German style farm houses and buildings. 1870s pug and pine cottage next to later stone cottage.
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Taplan in the Murray Mallee. St Johannes Lutheran Church built in 1923. It was 1959 before all servcies were held in English. Porch added 1948. Notre ground stone. Now a private residence.
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Maggea. Photograph of the old railway siding. The Karoonda to Waikerie railway line opened at the end of 1914.
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Taplan in the Murray Mallee. The first school opened in the Institute in 1917. This new stone government school opened 25 July 1927 despite what the sign says. It closed in 1967..
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Karoonda. The annual Farm Fair. Sheep dog dog trials.
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Peebinga. It has the railway to nowhere. The first Peebinga Hall opened in 1925. It was used for Lutheran, Catholic, Methodist and Anglican Church services. This second Hall opened in 1968 and closed 2002..
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Taplan. Jaeschke's former General store. now a residence.
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Paruna in the Murray Mallee. Established 1912. This government bore and water supply was opened in 1913.
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