Talia Station is a pastoral lease that operates as a

sheep station A sheep station is a large property ( station, the equivalent of a ranch) in Australia or New Zealand, whose main activity is the raising of sheep for their wool and/or meat. In Australia, sheep stations are usually in the south-east or sout ...

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. It is situated about north of Elliston and south west of

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on the

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. The name of the station is derived from the Aboriginal word meaning ''near water''. The run was originally owned by J. T. Symes in 1856 but was named by John Harris Browne who acquired the property shortly afterwards. By 1865 the property was being managed by John Strange and Mary Irvan Dinnison but the property was still owned by Browne. Archibald Graham Thompson and his brother William acquired Talia and Calea Stations from Browne in about 1880. William died in 1884 leaving Archibald with sole ownership of both properties. In 1888, Talia occupied an area of when Thompson renewed the lease on the property. In 1907 he sold from the lease. Archibald retired in 1912 leaving Talia to his three son, and died in Adelaide in 1919.

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{{Stations of South Australia Stations in South Australia Eyre Peninsula

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