Stone Hut is a small town in the Mid-north of
South Australia, situated on the
Horrocks Highway
Main North Road is the major north-south arterial route through the suburbs north of the Adelaide City Centre in the city of Adelaide, South Australia. It continues north through the settled areas of South Australia and is a total of long, fro ...
(section of
Main North Road) midway between
Laura
Laura may refer to:
People
* Laura (given name)
* Laura, the British code name for the World War I Belgian spy Marthe Cnockaert
Places Australia
* Laura, Queensland, a town on the Cape York Peninsula
* Laura, South Australia
* Laura Bay, a bay on ...
and
Wirrabara.
History
Stone Hut was founded in 1874 as a subdivision of part section 3522, Hundreds of
Booyoolie and
Appila by Robert Hall of Jamestown and John Henderson of Glen Osmond.
It was named for a four-room hut built in the early 1850s by stonemason Thomas Long, which served as a shelter for shepherds and later as a mail coach station for
Cobb and Co on the route between
Clare Clare may refer to:
Places Antarctica
* Clare Range, a mountain range in Victoria Land
Australia
* Clare, South Australia, a town in the Clare Valley
* Clare Valley, South Australia
Canada
* Clare (electoral district), an electoral district
* Cl ...
and
Port Augusta
Port Augusta is a small city in South Australia. Formerly a port, seaport, it is now a road traffic and Junction (rail), railway junction city mainly located on the east coast of the Spencer Gulf immediately south of the gulf's head and about ...
.
The town received a boost when the Wheatley's "Old Bakery" moved thence from Wirrabara around 2005.
References
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Towns in South Australia
Mid North (South Australia)
External links
Curious campers: Stone Hut