Hundred of Cotton

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The Hundred of Cotton is a hundred in the County of Chandos, South Australia, established in 1894. [1] [2]

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Street in Parrakie

The traditional owners of the land are the Ngargad Australian Aboriginal tribes. [3] The explorer Edward Eyre passed through the area during his 1940-1841 travels.

The towns of Kalkam, Parrakie and Mulpata are within the hundred.

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References

  1. The Fleurieu Peninsula Family History Group Inc. of South Australia, The Counties & Hundreds of South Australia.
  2. Leadbeater, Maureen M (5 June 2016). "Counties and Hundreds – South Australia". FamilyHistorySA.info. Retrieved 19 July 2016.
  3. David Horton (ed.), Aboriginal Australia Map, published in The Encyclopedia of Aboriginal Australia (AIATSIS. 1994).