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Pages in category "Ghost towns in South Australia" The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Farina, formerly Farina Town and originally Government Gums, is an abandoned town in the Australian state of South Australia. The name also applies to an area of about 8500 square kilometres (3300 square miles) in which the town is located. At the 2006 census, 55 people lived in the larger area; by the 2021 census, the population had fallen to 15.
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Pages in category "Towns in South Australia" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,073 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Farina in South Australia was abandoned when its settlers found that the climate was unsuitable for arable farming. Glen Davis in New South Wales was the centre of an oil shale industry during the Second World War; the mine was closed down in 1952. Goldsworthy is a former iron ore mining town in Western Australia.
The historic Pekina Run Ruins, located at the south-eastern tip of Coomooroo, are listed on the South Australian Heritage Register. [16] The Pekina Run ruins are significant as the relatively well-preserved remains of an early and large homestead complex of the 1840s, completely abandoned and allowed to fall into ruin after the Strangways land resumptions of the 1870s.
Hartley is a ghost town located in South Australia, along the Bremer River on the Strathalbyn-Callington Road. Founded in 1853 as a small rural settlement, it once boasted a Methodist church (1856), post office (opened 1869 and closed 1981), school (opened 1919 and closed 1970) and creamery. Now the town is little more than a series of ruins ...
Olary is located within the federal division of Grey, the state electoral district of Stuart and the Pastoral Unincorporated Area of South Australia. [8] [7] [1] As of 2019, the community within Olary received municipal services from a South Australian government agency, the Outback Communities Authority. [16]