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The SteamRanger Heritage Railway is a historic train society in South Australia running trains on the Victor Harbor railway line. It is the only group regularly operating broad gauge steam locomotives in South Australia. It is run by volunteers of the South Australian Division of the Australian Railway Historical Society.
The District Council of Alexandrina was a local government area in rural South Australia from 1856 to 1888.
Wistow is a small town, just outside Mount Barker, on Wellington Road. It is a town formed around the intersection of Wellington Road and Strathalbyn Road
The River Angas, part of the River Murray catchment, is a river that is located in the Adelaide Hills region in the Australian state of South Australia.
The Victor Harbor railway line is a broad gauge line in South Australia. It branches from the Adelaide to Wolseley line at Mount Barker Junction and then runs south to Victor Harbor.
Gordon Sinclair Davidson was an Australian politician. He was a grazier and church administrator before entering politics.
Strathalbyn Road is a South Australian road connecting the towns of Aldgate, Mylor, Echunga, Macclesfield and Strathalbyn. It is also part State Route B33 which starts from the South Eastern Freeway at Stirling. Route B33 follows Mount Barker Road from the South Eastern Freeway through Stirling to Aldgate, then continues on Strathalbyn Road.
Strathalbyn–Goolwa Road is a South Australian secondary road, connecting the towns of Strathalbyn and Goolwa to the towns of Middleton, Port Elliot, Victor Harbor on the south coast of the Fleurieu Peninsula with Delamere on the west side of the Fleurieu Peninsula. It is a secondary route, hence has been given the State Route designation of B37.
Hartley is a ghost town located in South Australia, along the Bremer River on the Strathalbyn-Callington Road.
The Southern Argus is a newspaper first published from March 1866 in Port Elliot, South Australia, and then in Strathalbyn from 1868 to the present. It was usually published on Thursdays.
Dr. John Rankine, was a landowner and politician in the early days of the Colony of South Australia. He is recognised as founding the township of Strathalbyn
Finniss is a settlement in South Australia. It is on the Victor Harbor railway line just the Adelaide side of where it crosses the Finniss River.
Sandergrove is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located about 9km south of Strathalbyn. It was a junction on the Victor Harbor railway line, where the Milang railway line branched off. The railway was authorised in 1881 and closed in 1970.
Herbert Charles Dunn was an Australian politician who represented the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Stirling from 1938 to 1952. He was an independent until 1940 when he joined the Liberal and Country League.
Gemmells is a locality on the Adelaide Hills of South Australia. It lies between Mount Barker and Strathalbyn, both by road and on the Victor Harbor railway line.
The County of Hindmarsh is one of the 49 counties of South Australia. It was proclaimed by Governor George Grey in 1842 and named for Governor John Hindmarsh.
The Hundred of Strathalbyn is a cadastral division of the County of Hindmarsh in South Australia. It lies west of the Adelaide Hills and east of Lake Alexandrina and includes at its southwestern extremity the town of Strathalbyn. Its name is derived from that used for a sub-division granted in 1841. No definitive derivation for the subdivision of Strathalbyn name is known but it is deemed probable that John Rankine or his brother William provided the name with the meaning given as "white valley" from the Scottish srath and albion. Mount Barker Creek forms much of the nothern hundred boundary while the Bremer River forms the eastern border.
The District Council of Strathalbyn was a local government area in South Australia centred on the town of Strathalbyn from 1854 until 1997. From 1868 the township itself was locally governed by the Corporation of Strathalbyn but that entity was amalgamated back into the district council in 1976.
