Mount Mary (formerly Krichauff and Beatty) is a small town on the Thiele Highway between Eudunda and

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. It was also served by the

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from 1878 until 1969 and is named for the Mount Mary railway station on that line. Despite the town's name, the terrain is essentially flat, and is believed to have been a corruption of ''Mound'' Mary. The town was originally surveyed in 1883 and named ''Krichauff'' in 1884, after the Hundred of Krichauff which in turn was named for Friedrich Krichauff. The name was changed from a name of enemy origin in 1918 to ''Beatty'' (along with the name of the hundred) then again in 1940 to Mount Mary to match the name of the railway station.

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remains the name of the locality covering the northern half of the

hundred of Beatty 100 or one hundred (Roman numeral: C) is the natural number following 99 and preceding 101. In mathematics 100 is the square of 10 (in scientific notation it is written as 102). The standard SI prefix for a hundred is " hecto-". 100 is the ...

. Mount Mary School opened as the Krichauff School in 1886. It was renamed Mount Mary in 1896, and temporarily closed from 1909 to 1913. The school closed permanently in 1956. Mount Mary still has a hotel serving the community and travellers, but little other business remains other than farming. The town contains ten homes, the pub, and a working telephone box. Mount Mary is located within the federal

division of Barker The Division of Barker is an Australian electoral division in the south-east of South Australia. The division was established on 2 October 1903, when South Australia's original single multi-member division was split into seven single-member d ...

, the state

electoral district of Chaffey Chaffey, created in 1936, is a single-member Electoral districts of South Australia, electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. It covers the Riverland region of South Australia including the towns of Renmark, South Australia ...

and the local government area of the

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