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Louisa O'Brien
Louisa O'Brien Member of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, MBE born Louisa Read (1 September 1880 – 16 December 1957) was an Australian hotelier. She controlled a number of hotels but her favourite was the South Australia Hotel in Adelaide which she revived into one of the best hotels "in the empire". Life O'Brien was born in 1880 in Naracoorte, South Australia. Her parents Mary Hannah (born Chaston) and George Henry Read ran hotels and her father also trained racehorses. As a child she was in Melbourne until in 1890 the family came back to Adelaide where she went to the Hardwicke Girls College. Her parents managed the Black Bull Inn. It was said to be the city's first hotel and it had taken that name in 1841. She obtained the lease in 1913 of the Young Queen Inn in Gawler Place in Adelaide. She obtained some of the money from her husband John O'Brien who was a jockey. She had married him two years before even though her father disapproved of him. O'Brien took ove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naracoorte, South Australia
Naracoorte is a town in the Limestone Coast region of South Australia, approximately 336 kilometres south-east of Adelaide and 100 kilometres north of Mount Gambier, South Australia, Mount Gambier on the Riddoch Highway (A66). History Before the colonisation of South Australia in 1836, the land now occupied by the town of Naracoorte was situated on the border of lands occupied by the Bindjali people to the east and Ngarrindjeri to the east. Naracoorte was formed from the merger of two towns, Kincraig, founded in 1845 by Scottish explorer William Macintosh, and Narracoorte, established as a government settlement in 1847. The name has gone through a number of spellings, and is believed to be derived from the Australian Aborigine, Aboriginal words for ''place of running water'' or ''large waterhole''. It grew during the 1850s as a service town for people going to and from the Victorian gold rush. The post office opened in March 1853 and was known as Mosquito Plains post office unti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
