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Moonta Mines, South Australia
Moonta Mines is a locality at the northern end of the Yorke Peninsula, adjoining the town of Moonta. It is located in the Copper Coast Council. From 1861 to 1923, it was the centre of a copper mining industry that formed colonial South Australia's largest mining enterprise. A substantial portion of the locality is listed on the South Australian Heritage Register as the Moonta Mines State Heritage Area and on the National Heritage List as the Australian Cornish Mining Heritage Site, Moonta Mines. History Patrick " Paddy " Ryan, a shepherd for pastoralist Sir Walter Hughes, discovered copper on Hughes' property at Moonta in May 1861. The Tiparra Mining Association (later the Moonta Mining Company) commenced operations in 1862 after a legal battle over title to the claim. It proved extremely successful, with the Moonta deposits resulting in high yields. It saw a particular influx of miners from Cornwall in England. The government town of Moonta was surveyed in 1863, which resul ...
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Electoral District Of Goyder
Goyder was an electoral district of the South Australian House of Assembly. It was a 9,258 km² rural electorate located on the Yorke Peninsula and taking in the towns of Ardrossan, Bute, Edithburgh, Kadina, Maitland, Minlaton, Moonta, Port Wakefield, Wallaroo and Yorketown. The electorate was named after George Goyder, a former state Surveyor-General famous for developing Goyder's Line, which indicated the area of the state that had enough rainfall to be suitable for agriculture. From the 2018 election, Goyder was renamed to Narungga. History The abolished seat of Yorke Peninsula formed part of the newly created seat of Goyder at the 1970 election. Goyder has been in non-Labor hands for the entire time from its creation at the electoral redistribution of 1969 until it was abolished in 2018. Much of the seat's territory had been represented by non-Labor MPs without interruption since the change to single-member seats in 1938. Even during Labor's landslide vict ...
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Cornwall
Cornwall (; kw, Kernow ) is a historic county and ceremonial county in South West England. It is recognised as one of the Celtic nations, and is the homeland of the Cornish people. Cornwall is bordered to the north and west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the English Channel, and to the east by the county of Devon, with the River Tamar forming the border between them. Cornwall forms the westernmost part of the South West Peninsula of the island of Great Britain. The southwesternmost point is Land's End and the southernmost Lizard Point. Cornwall has a population of and an area of . The county has been administered since 2009 by the unitary authority, Cornwall Council. The ceremonial county of Cornwall also includes the Isles of Scilly, which are administered separately. The administrative centre of Cornwall is Truro, its only city. Cornwall was formerly a Brythonic kingdom and subsequently a royal duchy. It is the cultural and ethnic origin of the Cor ...
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Hughes Enginehouse And Chimney
Hughes may refer to: People * Hughes (surname) * Hughes (given name) Places Antarctica * Hughes Range (Antarctica), Ross Dependency * Mount Hughes, Oates Land * Hughes Basin, Oates Land * Hughes Bay, Graham Land * Hughes Bluff, Victoria Land * Hughes Glacier, Victoria Land * Hughes Island, Victoria Land * Hughes Peninsula, Ellsworth Land * Hughes Point, Ellsworth Land Australia * Division of Hughes, an electoral district * Hughes, Australian Capital Territory, a suburb of Canberra * Hughes, Northern Territory, a rural locality United States * Hughes, Alaska, a city * Hughes, Arkansas, a city * Hughes, Iowa, a ghost town * Hughes, Wisconsin, a town * Hughes County, Oklahoma * Hughes County, South Dakota * Hughes Lake (California) * Hughes Mountain, Missouri * Hughes River (Virginia) * Hughes River (West Virginia) Other * Hughes, Santa Fe, Argentina, a town * Hughes Range (British Columbia), Canada * Hughes Reef, South China Sea * 1878 Hughes, an asteroid Businesses ...
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Moonta Mines Model School
Moonta may refer to: Places *Moonta, South Australia, a locality in the Copper Coast Council including: ** East Moonta ** Moonta Bay **Moonta Cemetery **Moonta Mines ** North Moonta *Corporate Town of Moonta, a former local government area *New Moonta, a suburb in Bundaberg, Queensland Ships *MV Moonta MV ''Moonta'' is a 1931 built Australian coastal passenger ship. Later in life she became the landlocked casino ship and tourist attraction ''Casino Le Lydia'' in Le Barcarès, France. Service years ''Moonta'' was launched in June 1931 Burmei ..., a cruise ship now used as a casino *SS Moonta (refer ''Moonta Herald and Northern Territory'' ''Gazette'') {{disambiguation ...
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1870 Miners' Cottage, Moonta Mines
Year 187 ( CLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Quintius and Aelianus (or, less frequently, year 940 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 187 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Septimius Severus marries Julia Domna (age 17), a Syrian princess, at Lugdunum (modern-day Lyon). She is the youngest daughter of high-priest Julius Bassianus – a descendant of the Royal House of Emesa. Her elder sister is Julia Maesa. * Clodius Albinus defeats the Chatti, a highly organized German tribe that controlled the area that includes the Black Forest. By topic Religion * Olympianus succeeds Pertinax as bishop of Byzantium (until 198). Births * Cao Pi, Chinese emperor of the Cao Wei state (d. 226) * ...
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Moonta Mines Model Sunday School Site
Moonta may refer to: Places *Moonta, South Australia, a locality in the Copper Coast Council including: ** East Moonta ** Moonta Bay **Moonta Cemetery **Moonta Mines ** North Moonta *Corporate Town of Moonta, a former local government area *New Moonta, a suburb in Bundaberg, Queensland Ships *MV Moonta MV ''Moonta'' is a 1931 built Australian coastal passenger ship. Later in life she became the landlocked casino ship and tourist attraction ''Casino Le Lydia'' in Le Barcarès, France. Service years ''Moonta'' was launched in June 1931 Burmei ..., a cruise ship now used as a casino *SS Moonta (refer ''Moonta Herald and Northern Territory'' ''Gazette'') {{disambiguation ...
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National Trust Of South Australia
The National Trust of Australia, officially the Australian Council of National Trusts (ACNT), is the Australian national peak body for community-based, non-government non-profit organisations committed to promoting and conserving Australia's Indigenous, natural and historic heritage. The umbrella body was incorporated in 1965, with member organisations in every state and territory of Australia. History Modelled on the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty and inspired by local campaigns to conserve native bushland and preserve old buildings, the first Australian National Trusts were formed in New South Wales in 1945, South Australia in 1955 and Victoria in 1956; followed later in Western Australia, Tasmania and Queensland. The two Territory Trusts were the last to be founded, in 1976 (see below). The driving force behind the establishment of the National Trust in Australia was Annie Forsyth Wyatt (1885–1961). She lived for much of her l ...
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Moonta Mines Museum (former Moonta Mines School) At Moonta, South Australia
Moonta may refer to: Places *Moonta, South Australia, a locality in the Copper Coast Council including: ** East Moonta ** Moonta Bay **Moonta Cemetery **Moonta Mines ** North Moonta *Corporate Town of Moonta, a former local government area *New Moonta, a suburb in Bundaberg, Queensland Ships *MV Moonta MV ''Moonta'' is a 1931 built Australian coastal passenger ship. Later in life she became the landlocked casino ship and tourist attraction ''Casino Le Lydia'' in Le Barcarès, France. Service years ''Moonta'' was launched in June 1931 Burmei ..., a cruise ship now used as a casino *SS Moonta (refer ''Moonta Herald and Northern Territory'' ''Gazette'') {{disambiguation ...
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Forrest, Victoria
Forrest is a small rural township in the Otway Ranges, Victoria, Australia. At the 2016 census, Forrest and the surrounding area had a population of 230. History The History of Forrest started more than 40,000 years ago. Forrest is at the northern end of the Otway Ranges. Historically, the Otway Ranges are the land of the Gadubanud people. The current boundaries of the Otway Shire Council partially include land belonging to the tribes of Gadubanud people and Gulidjan. Niewójt (2009) attempted to reconstruct the cultural landscape created by the Gadubanud people prior to their disastrous encounter with Europeans in the late 1840s. The vast territory (Figure 1) stretching from Painkalac Creek (near Aireys Inlet) in the east to the Gellibrand River that flows west of the mountains is over 100 kilometres. Niewójt (2009) noted that food supply through the coastline yielding shellfish, the presence of several wetlands and productive estuaries, and the plant foods available both ...
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Beyer, Peacock & Company
Beyer, Peacock and Company was an English railway locomotive manufacturer with a factory in Openshaw, Manchester. Founded by Charles Beyer, Richard Peacock and Henry Robertson, it traded from 1854 until 1966. The company exported locomotives, and machine tools to service them, throughout the world. Founders German-born Charles Beyer had undertaken engineering training related to cotton milling in Dresden before moving to England in 1831 aged 21. He secured employment as a draughtsman at Sharp, Roberts and Company's Atlas works in central Manchester, which manufactured cotton mill machinery and had just started building locomotives for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. There he was mentored by head engineer and prolific inventor of cotton mill machinery, Richard Roberts. By the time he resigned 22 years later he was well established as the company's head engineer; he had been involved in producing more than 600 locomotives. Richard Peacock had been chief engineer of ...
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Manchester
Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of City of Salford, Salford to the west. The two cities and the surrounding towns form one of the United Kingdom's most populous conurbations, the Greater Manchester Built-up Area, which has a population of 2.87 million. The history of Manchester began with the civilian settlement associated with the Roman Britain, Roman fort (''castra'') of ''Mamucium'' or ''Mancunium'', established in about AD 79 on a sandstone bluff near the confluence of the rivers River Medlock, Medlock and River Irwell, Irwell. Historic counties of England, Historically part of Lancashire, areas of Cheshire south of the River Mersey were incorporated into Manchester in the 20th century, including Wythenshawe in 1931. Throughout the Middle Ages Manchester remained a manorialism, manorial Township ( ...
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