Mannahill, South Australia

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Mannahill
South Australia
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The railway station.
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Mannahill
Coordinates 32°25′48″S139°59′14″E / 32.429977°S 139.987241°E / -32.429977; 139.987241 Coordinates: 32°25′48″S139°59′14″E / 32.429977°S 139.987241°E / -32.429977; 139.987241 [1]
Population0 (2016 census) [2]
Established10 March 1887 (town)
23 October 2003 (locality) [3] [4]
Postcode(s) 5440
Elevation370 m (1,214 ft)[ citation needed ]
Location
LGA(s) Pastoral Unincorporated Area [1]
Region Far North [1]
State electorate(s) Stuart [5]
Federal division(s) Grey [6]
Localities around Mannahill:
Florina Station Florina Station Florina Station
Florina Station Mannahill Oulnina
Oulnina Oulnina Oulnina
FootnotesAdjoining localities [1]

Mannahill (gazetted as Manna Hill) is a town and locality in the Australian state of South Australia. [1] Mannahill is in the Northeast Pastoral district and is one of the easternmost settlements in South Australia. [7]

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At the 2016 census, Mannahill had no people living within its boundaries. [2]

History

Mannahill was located on the stock route that passed from the Barrier Ranges in New South Wales to the then rail head at Terowie. The village also supported early gold mining activity at Mannahill and at Wadnaminga to the south. Mannahill was surveyed in the mid-1880s as a water-supply and maintenance point on the Peterborough to Cockburn railway line which was completed in 1887. The railway station had been previously constructed in 1886. [8]

In September 1886 a deputation, consisting of William Dening Glyde, M.L.C., Messrs. William Copley, William Henry Beaglehole, and David Bews, M.P.s, H. Nackin, and A. Champion, met the Commissioner of Crown Lands (Hon. J. Horn) seeking £600 to encourage further gold mining at the Mannahill Goldfields. [9]

Shortly afterwards this article appeared in the Melbourne Argus on 22 October 1886 in the context of the goldrush to the Mannahill goldfields: [10]

The journey is principally across saltbush plains and low undulating hills, lightly timbered with mulga and ti-tree. Water and food on the road are both scarce and of inferior quality. The distance from Adelaide to Petersburg (now Peterborough) is 150 miles. The first train leaves Adelaide about 8 o'clock in the morning, and reaches Petersburg at 3pm. A second train leaves Adelaide shortly before 5 in the evening, but only goes as far as Terowie 10 miles from Petersburg, reaching Terowie at midnight. There is one train a day from Petersburg to Mannahill. This journey covers a distance of between 80 and 90 miles, over flat uninteresting country. Provision has to be made by travellers for their own refreshments until Mannahill is reached. Here there is a large hotel, capable of accommodating about 50 people. In shearing time the proprietor does a fair trade, shearers and teamsters from the surrounding stations being the principal customers. The country around here possesses a very dreary outlook.

The village still has the Mannahill Hotel which was built in 1889. [11] Mannahill Police Station is situated in Railway Terrace, Mannahill. [12] Local weather records have been kept at Mannahill for 109 years. [13]

Heritage listings

Mannahill has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:

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A Mannahill entry sign.

Governance

Manna Hill is located within the federal division of Grey, the state electoral district of Stuart and the Pastoral Unincorporated Area of South Australia. [6] [5] [1] As of 2016, the community within Manna Hill received municipal services from a South Australian government agency, the Outback Communities Authority. [16]

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References

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  2. 1 2 Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Manna Hill (State Suburb)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 14 April 2019. OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  3. ↑ Murray, David (10 March 1887). "Untitled proclamation re the Town of Manna Hi" (PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette. Government of South Australia. p. 520. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
  4. ↑ Weatherill, Jay (23 October 2003). "GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES ACT 1991 Notice to Assign Names and Boundaries to Places" (PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette. Government of South AustralIA. p. 3859. Retrieved 14 April 2019. Assign the names YUNTA, BLINMAN, BOOKABIE, GLENDAMBO, YALATA, KINGOONYA, OLARY, INNAMINCKA, and MANNA HILL, to those areas Out of Councils and shown numbered 1 to 9 on Rack Plan 857 (Sheet 3)
  5. 1 2 "District of StuartBackground Profile". Electoral Commission SA. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
  6. 1 2 "Federal electoral division of Grey" (PDF). Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
  7. ↑ "May rainfall variable over SA Agricultural districts". Monthly Climate Summary – South Australian Regional Office. Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 1 June 2011.
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  9. ↑ "THE MANNAHILL GOLDFIELDS". The South Australian Advertiser . Vol. XXIX, no. 8703. South Australia. 9 September 1886. p. 3 – via National Library of Australia.
  10. ↑ "DESCRIPTION OF THE ROUTE AND LOCALITY". The Argus . No. 12, 582. Victoria, Australia. 22 October 1886. p. 6 – via National Library of Australia.
  11. ↑ "Mannahill Hotel". Campervan and Motorhome Club of Australia. Retrieved 1 June 2011.
  12. ↑ "Local police stations". South Australian Government. Archived from the original on 26 July 2011. Retrieved 1 June 2011.
  13. ↑ "SIGNIFICANT WEATHER". FEBRUARY 1997. Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 1 June 2011.
  14. ↑ "Mannahill Railway Station Building, Water Tank, Goods Platform and Crane". South Australian Heritage Register. Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources. Retrieved 12 February 2016.[ permanent dead link ]
  15. ↑ "'Antro' Woolshed & Shearers Kitchen, Bimbowrie Station". South Australian Heritage Register. Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources. Retrieved 12 February 2016.[ permanent dead link ]
  16. ↑ "Copley". Outback Communities Authority. Archived from the original on 19 March 2016. Retrieved 19 May 2016.

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