Ebenezer is a locality in the northern
Barossa Valley of
South Australia
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. It includes the historic Ebenezer settlement settled by 72
Wendish Lutheran
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s who had migrated from
Silesia
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in January 1852.
The modern locality of Ebenezer includes the nearby Neukirch settlement founded in 1854 by another group of Lutheran immigrants. Neukirch was renamed to Dimchurch in 1918 as part of the wholesale removal of German placenames in South Australia. The original name was restored in 1975.
In either 1868 or 1869, 56 German settlers left Ebenezer in 14 covered wagons and two spring carts to settle in the town of
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in the
Riverina area of
New South Wales
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Ebenezer originally started in 1851 a
private sub-division in the
cadastral unit of the
Hundred of Belvidere
The Hundred of Belvidere is a Cadastral divisions of South Australia, cadastral unit of Hundred (country subdivision), hundred located in the north Barossa Valley of South Australia in the County of Light.
The lightly-populated localities centra ...
. Boundaries were created for the “long established name” in 2000.
References
Towns in South Australia
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