Place Names of South Australia - H
Hamlin - Hartley Vale
- Hamlin
- Hammersmith
- Hammond
- Hamp Hill and Lake
- Hampden
- Hampstead
- Hampton
- Handyside, Hundred of
- Hansborough
- Hanson
- Happy Valley
- Harben Vale
- Harcourt
- Harcourt Gardens
- Hardwicke Bay
- Hardy, Cape
- Harris, Lake
- Harris Range
- Harrogate
- Harry, Lake
- Hart
- Hart, Hundred of
- Hart Island
- Hartley
- Hartley Vale
Hamlin
Nomenclature
The grantee of section 3272, Hundred of Para Wirra was William Hamlin, pound keeper of One Tree Hill, in 1861. The property was acquired by the Hamlin Freehold Gold Sections Mining Co Ltd and the name given to a village which it created for its workers when it purchased sections 3271-72, Hundred of Para Wirra in 1873.
General Notes
"Old Goldmining Reminiscences" by J.M. Kelly is in the Register,
14 September 1896, page 3b - "I found the first gold in Hamlin's Gully".
Information on the mine is in the Observer,
3 and 10 May 1873, pages 3g and 13d,
Advertiser,
6 March 1894, page 6h,
5 June 1895, page 6f,
Register,
15 June 1895, page 6d.
Also see South Australia - Mining - Gold.
The sale of the town is advertised in the Observer, 12 December 1874, page 8b:
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The township is situated about 14 miles south-east of Gawler Town in the centre of the Barossa diggings and is introduced to the public for the purpose of supplying a long-existing want of the large and increasing mining population of Barossa of freehold sites for building purposes...
Hamlin - Hartley Vale
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Place Names
Hammersmith
Nomenclature
A subdivision of part section 52, Hundred of Adelaide by W.H. Hadley, R.J. Pool and W. Kither in 1894; now included in Edwardstown, It has a counterpart in London and probably had some association with Mr Kither (1843-1911), who was born in London and arrived with his parents in 1855 in the Constance, after which his father founded a butchering business.
In a statutory declaration by John Mosman Hudd in Application No. 28509 in the General Registry Office it is stated that his grandfather, Henry Hudd, came to South Australia in 1854 and purchased portion of section 92, Hundred of Adelaide which he named 'Hammersmith' after the town in England from which he came; this property adjoins the section containing "Hammersmith".'
General Notes
The reminiscences of William Kither (junior) are in the Observer of
19 February 1910, page 44 and
his obituary in the Register,
25 January 1911, page 7c.
Hamlin - Hartley Vale
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Place Names
Hammond
Nomenclature
The town in the Hundred of Coonatto 26 km north-east of Wilmington; surveyed in 1879 by G.E.H. Ayliffe it was named by Governor Jervois after his eldest son, William H. Hammond Jervois and proclaimed on 10 July 1879.
General Notes
A sale of town allotments is reported in the Chronicle,
13 December 1879, page 4f.
Photographs of the town are in the Observer,
15 February 1908, page 32,
29 August 1908, page 32.
A Catholic picnic and sports day held on Mr P.J. Walsh's paddock is reported in the Chronicle,
17 January 1880, page 25e,
Register,
5 January 1883, page 7b,
Chronicle,
10 January 1885, page 8g,
9 January 1886, page 7f,
12 January 1889, page 14e,
8 January 1898, page 17e;
photographs appear on
18 January 1908, page 29.
Information on the Catholic Church is in the Register,
9 May 1907, page 7g,
Observer,
18 May 1907, page 15a.
A proposed railway is discussed in the Register,
27 July 1880, page 1a (supp.).
Also see South Australia - Transport - Railways - Miscellany.
Crop failures are discussed in the Register, 11 November 1881, page 2f (supp.):
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A large meeting was held at Jacka's Hotel in November 1882 to consider what measures should be adopted for those whose crops are a failure... There were selectors who had not had a crop for three or four years...
"Troubles of the Farmers" is in the Advertiser,
7 November 1888, page 6b.
Also see South Australia - Northern Lands Development and Allied Matters - Comments on Goyder's Line.
"The Wants of Hammond" is in the Register,
2 June 1881, page 6g,
1 February 1883, page 6e.
A proposed Jockey Club is discussed in the Chronicle,
21 May 1881, page 21e and
its first meeting on
4 June 1881, page 23c; also see
Advertiser,
30 May 1884, page 7c and
Register,
29 June 1891, page 7b,
Observer,
8 February 1896, page 18e.
Also see South Australia - Sport - Horse Racing.
"Disturbances" within the town are reported in the Chronicle,
8 October 1881, page 21d.
Its school opened in 1885 and closed in 1969.
The town is described in the Register,
25 June 1885, page 7g,
Parliamentary Paper 66/1886,
Chronicle,
3 June 1899, page 15a,
27 August 1904, page 34d.
The discovery of artesian water, which flowed at the rate of 3,000 gallons per hour, is reported in the Register,
8 March 1886, page 5b; also see
2 April 1886, page 5a,
7 August 1886, page 7h,
Observer,
14 August 1886, page 15e,
Chronicle,
22 September 1888, page 19e,
Register,
11 and 26 October 1888, pages 7f and 5c,
28 April 1892, page 5c,
17 January 1898, page 7a,
15 April 1898, page 4h,
8 August 1900, page 3d,
3 October 1900, page 7d.
Also see South Australia - Northern Lands Development and Allied Matters - Water, Artesian Wells and Springs.
A sports day is reported in the Advertiser,
5 January 1887, page 6e.
An obituary of William Jacka, hotelier, is in the Register,
23 August 1888, page 5a.
"Co-Operation at Hammond" is in the Register,
21 February 1890, page 7e.
An outbreak of typhoid fever is discussed in the Register on
4 August 1893, page 7e - see South Australia - Health - Fevers - Typhoid and
the opening of a butter factory on
30 May 1895, page 3e.
Also see South Australia - Industries - Rural, Primary and Secondary - Dairying.
A photograph of members of the district council is in the Chronicle,
15 February 1908, page 31.
An outbreak of "dry bible" in cattle is reported in the Register,
31 March 1909, page 7c,
Advertiser,
31 March 1909, page 9h,
6 April 1909, page 8d.
Also see South Australia - Industries - Rural, Primary and Secondary - Meat.
An anniversary social of the Liberal and Democratic Union is reported in the Advertiser,
9 August 1909, page 5d.
Also see South Australia - Politics.
An experiment in dry farming is commented upon in the Advertiser,
7 March 1911, page 8f.
Biographical details of M.B. Ryan are in the Register,
4 September 1912, page 7f.
"Forty Years at Hammond", the reminiscences of Timothy O'Donoghue, is in The News,
28 September 1927, page 13c.
Hammond - Obituaries
An obituary of William Hudson is in the Register, 17 May 1904, page 4g, Observer, 21 May 1904, page 34d,
of John Ormiston on 19 January 1907, page 38d,
of Mrs Bridget Corcoran on 31 August 1907, page 38e,
of F.H. Rix on 14 August 1909, page 30d.
An obituary of Mrs Jane Jacka is in the Register, 5 June 1914, page 10a,
of Duncan McLellan on 29 August 1919, page 6h,
of Alfred Phillis on 24 August 1922, page 6g,
of Paul G. Mueller on 16 August 1923, page 10d.
A History of the Town of Hammond and District
Land in the Hundred of Coonatto, proclaimed on 23 March 1876, was cut up into holdings of between 100-300 acres and as the years progressed it was cultivated far too heavily and fallowing was rarely practised. Thus, excessive ploughing caused the land to drift, fences were covered and dams silted up. Dust storms were prevalent and on occasions it was necessary to light house lanterns during the day.
There were good seasons but many of them were offset by four or five unproductive ones. A good season enticed the discouraged toiler in whose breast "hope sprang eternal" to take the course of a gambler in an attempt to alleviate his plight. While government gave tangible sympathy to the farmers' struggles in the form of rent relief and seed wheat supplies, in a good year they did not participate in the general bounty because their monetary returns were offset by the repayment of past concessions.
Hammond and district supported a strong Catholic community and from January 1883 an annual sports day was held, the first on the banks of Coonatto Creek on property owned by Mr P.J. Walsh. Prior to the event mass was celebrated in the Roman Catholic classroom (Saint Alexius) and in the evening a ball was held in the assembly room of the hotel where "upwards of 50 couples [danced]... until the lights in the room began to pale before the rising sun." The day-time competitive events included pig races, standing high jumps, tilting matches and the Hammond Cup, a sprint over 100 yards - among the winners were J. Barry, T. Kinnane, J. Chapman (who led the field in the Old Man's Race and was awarded a bottle of whisky) and M. Kennedy; the pig was caught in grand style by T. McDonald.
A Jockey Club was established in 1881 and its first meeting held a month later; in 1884 those with an equestrian bent assembled on Mr D. McLellan's property "one mile south of the township", where 1,000 people or more gathered to bet, eat, imbibe and appreciate "some charming music" provided by the Wallaroo Brass Band.
By 1885 Hammond, had seventeen houses and a population of 70 souls and the housewives' perennial complaint was the lack of a domestic water supply that could only be obtained from underground tanks fed by run off from the roofs of houses - all attempts at striking subterranean water had failed.
To alleviate this situation a large dam known as the South Whim Dam on the Coonatto run was utilised and in August 1886 it was deepened, fenced and fitted with a pump and troughs; a resident was appointed to collect fees for water supplied. Earlier, in March 1886 artesian water was struck at 230 feet that flowed up to 18,000 gallons per hour but, unfortunately, it was only suitable for stock.
By October 1888 the public dam was dry and recourse was made to the railway reservoir for domestic purposes; supplies for stock had to be carted as the government bore was lying idle for want of pumping appliances. In April 1892 the citizens demanded that a reservoir be erected in the foothills to the east of Hammond but, in their wisdom, the authorities decided to increase the supply in the railway reservoir by constructing a drain to divert stormwater from some watercourses. Finally, in 1900 the Commissioner of Public Works relented and the District Council was authorised by its ratepayers to raise the necessary sum to build a catchment dam.
By 1895 the embattled farmers had come to realise that a fortune was not to come their way from agriculture so many turned to dairying; this industry reached such proportions that Mr C.H. Tuckwell erected a butter factory in Hammond - it was fitted with a DeLaval separator and the latest improvements in butter-making machinery; the whole factory was driven by steam power generated from Leigh Creek coal.
However, in 1909 the cattle of the district were stricken with a disease commonly known as "dry bible" - cows have four stomachs and the third was known colloquially as the "bible" because it contained a great number of folds or leaves. Local herds of cattle were all but decimated - one farmer lost 24 bullocks and steers and on numerous farms milch cows died by the hundreds; strangely, cows within the town precincts were not affected. No cure was known and farmers resorted to "quack" medicines - one owner gave an ailing cow 56 ounces of Epsom salts, two gallons of linseed oil thickened with two bars of soap, duly flaked!
At the turn of the century it was pitiable to see the results that some ignorant farmers had inflicted upon the landscape. From about 1910 there was, finally, a universal realisation that to continue using the land for primary industry was a sure road to bankruptcy - for some, suicide! The crippling drought of 1914 accelerated an exodus of population and slowly, but surely, the land returned to the pastoralists, albeit in a poorer condition than that which obtained in the 1870s. By the 1960s Hammond was in its death throes; the school closed in 1969 and the hotel that was licensed in 1877 ceased to trade as from 10 March 1972.
Indeed, the words of J.H. Browne who, with his brother, W.J. Browne, established the Booborowie Run in 1843 and pioneered exploration of country further northwards, must have been a bitter pill to those who advocated the violation of Goyder's line for agricultural purposes - following the resumption of the Arkaba Run and the survey of the Hundred of Arkaba Mr Browne said:
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How much longer will it take our legislators to learn that all the country north of "Goyder's Rainfall" line is only fit for pastoral purposes.
Over a century later one can only conclude, simply, that the experiment of closer settlement outside Goyder's line failed to recognise Nature's limitations and as such was a costly incursion.
Sources
Observer, 24 October 1868, page 3c, 16 January 1904, page 13a, 13 January 1906, page 42a, Chronicle, 21 May 1881, page 21e, 4 June 1881, page 23c, Register, 15 November 1848, 3 November 1875, page 6a, 21 February 1883, page 5e, 8 March 1886, page 5b, 2 April 1886, page 5a, 7 August 1886, page 7h, 11 October 1888, page 7f, 28 April 1892, page 5c, 30 May 1895, page 5d, 31 October 1896, page 6e, 17 January 1898,
page 7a, 8 August 1900, page 3d, 3 October 1900, page 7d, The News, 28 September 1927, page 13c (reminiscences of Mr T. O'Donoghue), Hans Mincham, The Story of the Flinders Ranges.
Hamlin - Hartley Vale
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Place Names
Hamp Hill and Lake
Nomenclature
Near Elliston. John Hamp, who held the lease of Nilkerloo station, was killed by Aborigines on 23 June 1848.
General Notes
An obituary of John Chipp Hamp is in the Register,
11 April 1904, page 4i:
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News has been received of the death in Johannesburg of Mr. John Chipp Hamp. He was the third son of John Chipp Hamp, now of Athelstone, but better known as a pioneer pastoralist of the Port Lincoln district. The grandfather, also of the same name, was one of the first settlers on the west coast and was killed by the blacks near Elliston in 1849...
Also see
Register,
1 December 1905, page 4i,
Observer,
9 December 1905, pages 28e-38d,
of W.E. Hamp on
19 April 1913, page 41a.
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Place Names
Hampden
Nomenclature
A railway station 5 km north-west of Eudunda. William Hampden Dutton.
General Notes
A photograph of the railway siding is in the Observer,
22 June 1912, page 31.
Its school opened in 1925 and closed in 1951.
Hamlin - Hartley Vale
H
Place Names
Hampstead
Nomenclature
This name from London, England was given to a subdivision of section 489, Hundred of Yatala by Alfred Watts and Philip Levi in 1865; now included in Manningham.
General Notes
A stick-up of George H. Langford is reported in the Register,
11 and 13 June 1866, pages 2g and 2e,
Observer,
16 June 1866, page 1g (supp.):
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The most serious case of sticking-up that has yet occurred was perpetrated on Saturday last. Mr. George Langford, a greengrocer, was coming into town to market when he was suddenly stopped near the corner of Mr. Goode's paddock by three men and while one held his horse the others dragged him out of his cart... Two men named George Coppin and Alfred Samuel Wark, of Walkerville, are in custody...
A pigeon shooting match at the hotel is reported in the Observer,
30 May 1896, page 21a,
Express,
15 April 1898, page 3f; also see
1 June 1899, page 3f.
Also see South Australia - Sport - Pigeon Racing and Shooting.
A robbery at the hotel is reported in the Observer,
5 April 1913, page 42e.
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Place Names
Hampton
Nomenclature
An 1857 subdivision of part sections 480 and 2071, Hundred of Kooringa by Thomas William Powell (1806-1891); now included in Burra. It contained about thirty miners' cottages; he, no doubt, named it after 'Hampton' in Middlesex, England where he married Rebecca A. Wixen in 1833; she was born in that town in 1810.
General Notes
The opening of a Bible Christian Chapel is reported in the Register,
1 December 1858, page 3f.
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Place Names
Handyside, Hundred of
Nomenclature
A.D. Handyside, MP (1885-1904). Born in Scotland in 1835 he came to Victoria in 1853 eventually settling in South Australia in 1868 when he became engaged in mail contract work in the South-East working the overland mail route as a member of Cobb and Company, who had succeeded William Rounsevell. He then turned his attention to pastoral pursuits and purchased the 'Cannawigara Run'. As a parliamentarian 'we always knew what side he was on; he never sat on the rail'. A great raconteur he was often encouraged to recount stories of steeplechases of long ago and revive memories of Adam Lindsay Gordon with whom he was acquainted
General Notes
Also see South Australia - Politics.
Biographical information is in the Observer,
12 July 1890, page 33b,
an obituary is in the Advertiser,
24 May 1904, page 5i.
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Place Names
Hansborough
Nomenclature
Eleven kilometres south-west of Eudunda. The town was surveyed in July 1865 and resumed on 13 August 1936. Frederick Hansborough Dutton (1812-1890), founder of 'Anlaby' near Kapunda.
General Notes
The sale of allotments is reported in the Chronicle,
25 November 1865, page 7f.
A pious citizen proclaimed to the world his opinion of the village:
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... Their greatest requirement... is a place of worship... It would... prevent the Sabbath breaking, which is now so prevalent.
(Register, 29 June 1869, page 2e.)
Its school opened in 1882 and closed in 1943. See Observer,
13 March 1920, page 31c,
Register,
27 July 1928, page 10d.
A meeting called to discuss the necessity for a bridge over the River Light is reported in the Register,
25 July 1871, page 6e,
Observer,
10 and 31 August 1872, pages 8b and 7g-8a,
5 October 1872, page 7e.
An obituary of Mrs Charlotte Moody is in the Observer,
29 May 1926, page 19a.
A photograph of a cricket team is in the Chronicle,
28 May 1936, page 35.
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Place Names
Hanson
Nomenclature
The present day town 13 km south-west of Burra, surveyed in September 1865 as 'Davies', was changed to 'Hanson' in 1940. Another town of 'Hanson' surveyed in 1870 has been 'Farrell Flat' since 1940. Hon Sir Richard Davies Hanson, MP and later Chief Justice (1861-1876).
General Notes
Information on the town is in the Observer,
4 May 1872, page 13g.
A proposed district council is reported upon in the Express,
15 July 1872, page 2e.
Also see South Australia - Miscellany - Local Government.
The district's first ploughing match is reported in the Observer,
23 August 1873, page 4e.
Also see South Australia - Industries - Rural, Primary and Secondary - Ploughing Matches.
The laying of the foundation stone of the Wesleyan Church is reported in the Register,
6 September 1873, page 7b;
for its opening see Chronicle,
3 January 1874, page 5d.
A cricket match against Mintaro is reported in the Chronicle,
15 November 1873, page 4g.
Also see South Australia - Sport - Cricket - Miscellany.
"A Trip from Hanson to Jamestown and Back" is in the Advertiser,
18 July 1874, page 3b.
A spelling "bee" is reported in the Observer,
16 October 1875, page 6a.
A horse race meeting is reported in the Observer,
8 January 1876, page 12f.
Also see South Australia - Sport - Horse Racing.
A "disreputable brawl" is reported in the Observer, 4 March 1876, page 7e:
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If a stranger had made his appearance in Hanson on Saturday evening, the 19th instant, he would not have been much taken with the moral behaviour of the people. For about an hour the railway yard was a pandemonium. Horrible oaths and yells were heard, brawny arms were moving in the noble art of self-defence, blood was flowing freely in all directions and even missiles were brought into requisition... When the men were too much knocked out to fight they knocked off and began to pick up their clothes. The remains of several whip handles lay about on the ground and there was a difficulty in finding out who the owners were... They then adjourned to the pub to refresh themselves...
R.D. Hanson's obituary is in the Register,
6 March 1876, page 4g; also see
7 and 8 March 1876, pages 4e and 6a.
The Lantern,
8 January 1876, page 8 (sketch).
A grant to his surviving family is discussed in the Chronicle,
28 October 1876, page 5a.
"An Early Reformer", covering his life and times in South Australia, is in the Register,
6 December 1918, page 7d.
Education Department records show its school opening in 1879 and becoming "Farrell Flat" in 1891.
However, a school picnic on Mr James Torr's property is reported in the Chronicle,
9 October 1875, page 17e.
A photograph of a "Back to School" celebration is in the Chronicle,
3 December 1936, page 38.
The golden wedding of Mr & Mrs George Dixon is teported in the Register,
21 February 1906, page 4i.
Biographical details of Mrs Holbrook are in the Register,
18 June 1907, page 5a.
An obituary of George Dixon is in the Register,
7 September 1916, page 4h.
Information on a Methodist hall is in the Register,
4 May 1928, page 15g.
Hamlin - Hartley Vale
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Place Names
Happy Valley
Nomenclature
The suburb of Adelaide was a subdivision of section 501, Hundred of Noarlunga by R.C. Hinton in 1959. Its derivation is explained by the Rev. John Blacket:
- Edward Burgess landed at Holdfast Bay and was present at the first Methodist service held on the mainland of South Australia, about 20 January 1837. He settled about twelve miles south of the little city of Adelaide and they called the locality "Happy Valley''.
- [It] owes its name to old Mrs Cobbledick, who was struck with the beauty of the scene...
General Notes
"Happy Valley Reminiscences" is in the Observer,
13 November 1926, page 48a.
Information on the Wesleyan Chapel is in the Observer, 14 October 1843, page 5c:
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A neat Wesleyan Chapel, 20 feet by 30, and built of stone, has recently been erected... The Chapel will seat about 120... The ground for the Chapel was given by Dr Montgomery and it was erected by the voluntary contributions of the people in the locality...
School examinations are reported in the Register,
30 December 1870, page 6e.
"Unhappiness at Happy Valley" is in the Observer, 4 March 1871, page 7e:
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There is amongst its residents a widow lady well known as a house proprietor of long standing. Within the past few weeks she became engaged to a pensioner known as ?Doctor? Harris who also had prior experience of matrimonial life. The wedding was fixed for Tuesday last, the breakfast was all prepared, the minister was ready to perform the ceremony, but the bridegroom came not. He had gone out in the early morning with the professed object of taking a bath... He incontinently disappeared and has not since been heard of. So the minister was dismissed, the breakfast devoted to other uses... and the disconsolate widow congratulated on having escaped a match which after all would have been an ill-sorted one.
Information on the reservoir is in the Advertiser,
9 November 1889, page 5f,
photographs are in the Pictorial Australian in
September 1891, page 152; also see
Register,
30 April 1892, page 6f,
25 August 1892, page 6c,
Chronicle,
7 May 1892, page 7d,
Express,
25 August 1892, page 4b,
6 September 1892, page 3c,
Register,
3 and 30 December 1892, pages 6f and 7h,
3 and 17 April 1893, pages 6d and 3b.
Also see Adelaide - Water Supply.
Also see Chronicle,
2 September 1893, page 8b,
18 August 1894, page 7d,
1 September 1884, page 2f,
Register,
27 November 1893, page 6b,
17 May 1895, page 6g,
7 August 1896, pages 4f-5b - a supplement on this day has photographs -
8 August 1896, page 5a,
24 October 1896, page 4e,
19 January 1897, page 7c,
Observer,
3 January 1925, page 16a.
A cartoon of the "Onkaparinga Watershed" is in the Chronicle,
8 March 1902, page 33.
"The Happy Valley Compensation Case" is in the Register,
16 August 1893, page 4g.
A field naturalists excursion is reported in the Register,
13 October 1892, page 2c (supp.),
13 November 1893, page 3e,
29 October 1895, page 6h,
6 October 1903, page 3g.
Sports days are reported in the Chronicle,
1 April 1893, page 23e,
11 November 1893, page 22g,
Express,
12 November 1895, page 3f.
Information on a football club is in the Express,
21 March 1895, page 4c.
Also see South Australia - Sport - Football.
District vineyards are described in the Advertiser,
12 March 1898, page 8c,
Register,
14 April 1898, page 6f.
A pruning match is reported in the Chronicle,
29 June 1901, page 34b and
an employees' picnic on
25 April 1903, page 36c,
23 April 1904, page 34b.
Also see South Australia - Industries - Rural, Primary and Secondary - Viticulture.
"Happy Valley Vignerons" is in the Observer,
12 May 1906, page 42b.
A local vignerons' annual picnic is reported in the Register,
9 May 1906, page 8a.
The reminiscences of Henry Douglas are in the Register,
7 July 1903, page 6a.
"The Happy Valley Camp" is in the Chronicle,
9 April 1904, page 32d.
"The Mimic of War - Incoming of the Troops" is in the Register,
14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 22 April 1911, pages 6b, 13b, 8f, 5e, 6a, 9d, 6b and 15a,
The Critic,
19 April 1911, page 10 (photographs).
Also see South Australia - Defence of the Colony.
A jubilee of the Congregational church is reported in the Register,
7 March 1907, page 8g.
"Happy Valley Reminiscences" is in the Register,
5 November 1926, page 11h.
Happy Valley - Obituaries
An obituary of Mrs Josiah Partridge is in the Register, 23 September 1893, page 5b,
of Mrs Christian Coventry on 10 May 1905, page 5a,
of Mrs Elizabeth Johnson on 16 August 1927, page 13e.
An obituary of Edward Burgess is in the Observer, 20 February 1897, page 29e,
of John Strong on 21 January 1905, pages 23c-34e,
of Richard Appleton on 18 December 1909, page 34a.
Hamlin - Hartley Vale
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Place Names
Harben Vale
A telephone office opened at "Mount Barker Junction Township" in 1924. (See loose leaf indices of place names held by the Geographical Names section of the Department of Lands.)
Hamlin - Hartley Vale
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Place Names
Harcourt
A place name of `Harcourt' is mentioned as a burial ground in the Yankalilla district - see Register,12 August 1858, page 3f.
It stands on section 267 of Survey C and was named after the Reverend John Harcourt.
Information on him is in the Register,
16 March 1857, page 3f.
Hamlin - Hartley Vale
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Place Names
Harcourt Gardens
Nomenclature
A subdivision of part sections 88-89, Hundred of Adelaide by Arthur H. and Norman C. Sanders in 1922:
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[Section 89 is] known as Pile's section... A recreation ground of 10 acres has been secured by local trustees on which are many natural forest trees...'
General Notes
The Register of
19 March 1879, page 4d has an editorial on Sir William Harcourt, Solicitor-General to Prime Minister Gladstone in England; also see
8 April 1884, page 7b,
22 June 1885, page 5e,
3 October 1904, pages 5h-6b.
The Register of
15 April 1915, page 6h mentions Mr Lewis Harcourt as being Secretary for the Colonies.
Hamlin - Hartley Vale
H
Place Names
Hardwicke Bay
Nomenclature
Named by Matthew Flinders on 19 March 1802 after the Earl of Hardwicke.
General Notes
Its school opened in 1879 and closed circa 1886.
Hamlin - Hartley Vale
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Place Names
Hardy, Cape
Nomenclature
Arthur Hardy, MP (1875-1887).
General Notes
The events of Arthur Hardy's life are recorded in the Observer of
17 July 1909, page 41a-d:
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With a shepherd who had accompanied him he purchased sheep and began farming on the Torrens at Shepley, subsequently known as Paradise.... He returned to England in 1848 and when he came back he brought with him a wife... He built Birksgate at Glen Osmond and in 1850 opened the Glen Osmond quarries. In his reminiscences he said: ?Immediately on my arrival a found that a comparatively significant, but most successful undertaking had been arrived at, viz., a very considerable number of escaped convicts had found their way into the Mount Lofty ranges, principally about what is now called Piccadilly.
As unofficial understanding had been arrived at, viz., that so long as no crimes were committed by these men in South Australia, the police would not seek any of them, but, if any crime should be committed, the guilty man should be given up to the police, failing which the whole of them would be hunted down and returned to the colony from which they had escaped. I do not remember that any complaint was made against any of them; but I do remember that they were sought for by settlers at £1 per day wages (the same as emigrants could get for fencing, etc.) And it was recognised that those settlers who secured their labour got more work done by them than by emigrants, at the same wage, because they understood the work from long practice. I saw many of them, and steadier men I never saw...?
Also see
Register,
14 July 1909, page 5c.
Hamlin - Hartley Vale
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Place Names
Harris, Lake
Nomenclature
South-west of Kingoonya, mapped by C.H. Harris in August 1874 and named by Governor Musgrave.
General Notes
Controversy over its nomenclature, together with that of Harris Crossing and Harris Bluff, is traversed in the Advertiser,
18 February 1921, page 9c:
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I would like to point out that that Lake Harris was named by Governor Musgrave after my late father, Charles Hope Harris, who was for many years in the Survey Department... Mount Harris, the highest point in Blood's Range was also named after my father by Tietkins...
Information on Harris Crossing at Lake Gairdner is in the Observer,
2 March 1878, page 23b.
Hamlin - Hartley Vale
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Place Names
Harris Range
Parliamentary Paper 34/1877 shows the school being conducted by Elizabeth P. Sheppeard with an enrolment of 37 pupils.It opened in 1876 and was conducted in the Wyrie Hall.
A new school was opened there in 1880 and named "Pompoon Swamp";
it closed in 1967.
Hamlin - Hartley Vale
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Place Names
Harrogate
Nomenclature
A subdivision of section 1789, Hundred of Kanmantoo 16 km east of Woodside by the Hon John Baker in 1858, who named it after a town in Yorkshire, England.
General Notes
The laying of the foundation stone of the Bible Christian Chapel is reported in the Register,
19 November 1859, page 3c.
Parliamentary Paper 26/1875 shows the school being conducted by Henry E. Abell in a chapel with 51 enrolled pupils;
it opened as "Harrowgate" in 1860 becoming "Harrogate" in 1877; it closed in 1943. See
Register,
9 December 1862, page 2g,
Observer,
13 December 1862, page 1h (supp.),
Advertiser,
24 September 1894, page 6d,
Observer,
29 September 1894, page 32c.
A snow fall is reported in the Chronicle,
3 August 1901, page 33c.
An obituary of Archibald Hay is in the Register, 26 June 1886, page 5c,
of Michael Nolan on 23 October 1909, page 13d.
An obituary of Thomas Carling is in the Observer,
13 June 1903, page 34d,
of John Pearson on 17 September 1910, page 41a,
of Benjamin Wray on 5 July 1913, page 41c.
Biographical details of Mrs B. Wray are in the Register,
13 July 1910, page 6g.
The district is described in the Register, 17 June 1910, page 3b:
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From Monarto Siding we proceeded toward Harrogate and into a class of country that has a great name for record wheat crops... Further on were seen the local football oval and cemetery... After turning a few times and passing some really fine paddocks we found ourselves approaching what appeared to be a small township. On closer examination it proved to be a group of buildings representing the council chamber, the post office and a German chapel and school....
Hamlin - Hartley Vale
H
Place Names
Harry, Lake
Nomenclature
About 40 km north-east of Marree. Named after Harry Robert Debney, born 1879, the son of George Leonard Debney (1843-1908) who was reported to be the manager of Moolooloo station in the 1870s.
General Notes
"The Lake Harry Bore" is in the Register,
30 April 1890, page 5c,
1 May 1890, page 4h,
Observer,
3 May 1890, page 13b.
Also see South Australia - Northern Lands Development and Allied Matters - Water, Artesian Wells and Springs.
The lake is described in the Register
24 April 1897, page 6h,
15 October 1898, page 4h.
Also see Place Names - Marree:
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One thing which must surprise every visitor to Lake Harry is that there is no lake... We were told that a sheet of water is there after a heavy rain, but it is only a few inches deep. A beautiful mirage is to be seen there every day, but that is too common a thing in the North to arouse interest... The government gardens are composed almost entirely of date trees... Tomatoes do well and ripe ones can be had at almost every month of the year. The bore at Lake Harry is 1,300 feet deep...
A proposed date palm plantation is reported in the Observer,
2 February 1895, page 30e,
Register,
12 February 1895, page 4h; also see
30 March 1895, page 4i,
23 October 1895, page 5b,
Express,
5 September 1895, page 2c,
24 April 1896, page 2c,
11 November 1898, page 3f,
Observer,
25 April 1896, page 29c,
27 March 1897, page 33c,
Advertiser,
24 April 1896, page 5b.
Also see
Register,
20 November 1897, page 4i,
Advertiser,
15 October 1898, page 7a,
Observer,
15 October 1898, page 28c,
Register,
20 September 1899, page 6d,
19 October 1899, page 4h,
18 November 1899, page 10e,
Express,
4 December 1900, page 2e,
14 February 1901, page 2f,
Express,
4 December 1900, page 2e,
14 February 1901, page 2f,
Register,
30 March 1906, page 4g,
28 April 1906, page 6f,
9 April 1907, page 8d.
Also see
Chronicle,
1 December 1900, page 3d,
Register,
19 April 1901, page 4f,
28 November 1901, page 6f,
5 January 1906, page 4f,
28 April 1906, page 6f,
19 February 1907, page 4f,
24 November 1909, page 6f,
7 October 1910, page 6g.
Photographs are in the Observer,
14 September 1907, page 30,
15 October 1910, page 13b,
Register,
6 August 1910, page 6,
Chronicle,
3 February 1912, page 30.
The removal of palms to Cobdogla is reported in the Register,
7 December 1916, page 4f.
The lake is described on
24 April 1897, page 6h,
15 October 1898, page 4h.
Dates from Lake Harry are reported upon in the Advertiser,
1 April 1931, page 10g; also see
29 May 1933, page 16h,
20 June 1933, page 10g,
24 August 1933, page 10h,
19 January 1937, page 19b.
Historical information is in the Observer,
23 December 1922, page 15b.
Hamlin - Hartley Vale
H
Place Names
Hart
Nomenclature
Hart Mine is on section 2, Hundred of Muloowurtie. John Hart obtained the land grant on 14 April 1847 (sections 1 and 2 were surveyed in 1846 by W. Baker). He was in partnership with Alfred Weaver and they publicly stated they intended setting up a whaling station and sheep run, but privately their interests were in copper, outcrops of which existed on the land; payable quantities of ore were not forthcoming and the mine was abandoned.
General Notes
Also see South Australia - Mining - Coal.
Information on the Hart Mine is in the Register,
12 June 1847, page 2c:
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In some parts of Yorke Peninsula the scrub is impenetrable, extending from shore to shore, and there seems to a considerable extent an absence of surface water... Mr. Weaver and his party skirted the coast with their stock and in their progress discovered a large deposit of copper... Messrs Weaver and Hart effected the purchase of this land and thus secured (judging from reports and assays ...) a property second only to the celebrated Burra Burra...
It is described on
21 January 1861, page 2f.
John Hart's obituary is in the Register, 29 January 1873, page 4e.
The Observer of 2 June 1877 at page 1d advertises the "Township of Hart" - "Laid out on portions of sections 396, 397 and 410 adjoining the Angle [sic] Grove Hotel [see Place Names - Angelgrove] and situated at the junction of six roads on the main road from Clare to Port Pirie." A perusal of relevant certificates of title (see, eg, Vol 97 Fol 15 and Vol 168 Fol 183) suggests that the subdivision never proceeded beyond the "advertising" stage.
An Arbor Day at "Hart Hall School" near Anama is reported in the Observer, 29 July 1905, page 12a:
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Arbor Day was celebrated at the Hart Hall School in July 1905. Mr. A.L. McEwin and Mr. R.W. Lyon addressed the children, after which each scholar planted a tree. Prizes were given for each tree living from last year's Arbor Day... (Observer, 29 July 1905, page 12.)
A photograph of pupils and teacher at the Hart School is in the Chronicle,
18 August 1906;
information on it is in the Register,
6 and 8 June 1914, pages 10h and 11a.
Hamlin - Hartley Vale
H
Place Names
Hart Island
Near Waikerie. It is described in the Register, 16 August 1887, page 3g:
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Hart's Island was one of the worst places on the river for skippers in low water. Many the tale has been told of the difficulties encountered here, the heaving and breaking of lines, the hauling and block-snapping and shifting cargo must have been very tiresome...
Hamlin - Hartley Vale
H
Place Names
Hart, Hundred of
Nomenclature
Captain John Hart, who in later years was a member of Parliament (1857-1873).
General Notes
Also see South Australia - Politics and Place Names - Glanville.
Its school opened in 1895 and closed circa 1943.
Hamlin - Hartley Vale
H
Place Names
Hartley
Nomenclature
Reverend Hartley Williams gave this name to a subdivision of part section 240, Hundred of Noarlunga in 1879; now included in Brighton. Lands Department records show that the name was applied to section 1801, Hundred of Strathalbyn; it was a small village set up by Methodists. The Hartley Post Office stood on section 1804, Hundred of Strathalbyn 11 km north of Langhorne Creek; opened in 1867 by J. Cross it closed on 30 June 1981.
General Notes
The opening of a Wesleyan Chapel is reported in the Register,
7 November 1856, page 3g,
Observer,
8 November 1856, page 3d.
The dairy factory is reported upon in the Chronicle,
15 September 1894, page 8d.
Also see South Australia - Industries - Rural, Primary and Secondary - Dairying.
An obituary of J.G. Jaensch is in the Observer,
12 November 1898, page 41e,
of Mrs Lydia Cross in the Register,
31 January 1918, page 4f.
Its school opened in 1919 and closed in 1970.
A photograph is in the Chronicle, 9 August 1919, page 30.
"Where is Hartley" is in the Register, 24 May 1928, page 4d:
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The old Hartley Chapel stands on the main road from Callington to Woodchester and Strathalbyn...
Hamlin - Hartley Vale
H
Place Names
Hartley Vale
According to Education Department records its school opened in 1890 and closed in 1904, but the Register of26 May 1858, page 2g has information on a school there.
See Observer,
5 October 1889, page 32a for information on a proposed school; also see
Register,
13 October 1904, page 8e for information on its closure:
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In October 1889 Messrs Homburg and Stirling, members for Gumeracha, presented to the Minister of Education a petition from the residents of Hartley Vale, requesting the establishment of a provisional school at that place. When a request was previously made it was refused on the ground that the locality was too near Gumeracha or Lobethal...
