St Kitts is a locality northeast of the
Barossa Valley in
South Australia
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. The school and both Lutheran churches have closed. The main industry in the area is cereal grain crop farming.
St Kitts was settled in the 1850s and 1860s by immigrant
Sorbs or
Wends who had migrated from
Saxony
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(then part of
Prussia
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, now mostly in western
Poland
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).
St Kitts St Petri (St Peter) congregation was established in 1866 and constructed its building in 1869, replaced by a newer building in 1910 on the corner of St Kitts West and Tablelands Roads. St Kitts St Paul's congregation began in 1903 and built its own church building a little further along Tablelands Road. Both churches had cemeteries. St Paul's closed in 1949.
St Petri is also now closed and both buildings are private homes.
References
Towns in South Australia
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