Daveyston, South Australia
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Daveyston is a small town in the northern
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region of
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. It is adjacent to the current
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which previously ran through the middle of the town. The town is named after Benjamin Davey who had established a mill there before the town was established. There is a large stockfeed mill adjacent to the highway just west of the town, which is not the site of the original mill.


History

The town was founded in the ''
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, by Edward Hempel, circa 1856, and named after Thomas Davey (1796-1862) who, with his five sons, established mills at Penrice, Angaston,
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,
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and
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.'' The towns first postmaster was Francis Norrie who opened a
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in 1863 and it closed on 3 January 1974. The population of the town rose to about 100 in 1866 and, in 1877, the Daveyston School was conducted by Theodor Becker with 39 enrolled pupils; it opened in 1867 and closed in 1970. South Australian Names


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