Milendella is a locality on the plains to the east of the

Mount Lofty Ranges The Mount Lofty Ranges are a range of mountains in the Australian state of South Australia which for a small part of its length borders the east of Adelaide. The part of the range in the vicinity of Adelaide is called the Adelaide Hills and ...

South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories ...

. It was once a stop on the

Sedan railway line The Sedan railway line branched off from the South Australian Railways' Adelaide to Wolseley line at Monarto South running 70 kilometres north to Sedan. History The Sedan line opened Monarto South to Sedan on 13 October 1919. The original s ...

. The name Milendella was approved by the state Nomenclature Committee in 1917 in advance of the railway opening in 1919. The name was the native name of Emu Creek which runs through the locality. Milendella Lutheran Church 01

Milendella was first settled by German immigrant families in the 1880s. The Lutheran church was built in the 1890s. The town once had a church, general store, post office, school and railway station. Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church continues to meet monthly. Milendella includes the former Government Town of Bonython which was surveyed in 1890 and named after Sir

John Langdon Bonython Sir John Langdon Bonython (;Charles Earle Funk, ''What's the Name, Please?'' (Funk & Wagnalls, 1936). 15 October 184822 October 1939) was an Australian editor, newspaper proprietor, philanthropist, journalist and politician who served a ...

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