Heritage of Eyre Peninsula: a short history
Patricia Sumerling
This essay first appeared as the historical section of the Heritage of the Eyre Peninsula, a report prepared as part of the SA State Historic Preservation Plan Regional Heritage Survey Series by and was published in 1987 by the Department of Environment and Planning. It is republished here with the permsission of the Department with minor amendments.
Patricia Sumerling has been a professional historian for more than 25 years. Although she has worked mainly in the heritage field, she has followed her own areas of interest in South Australian history. These include the social history of the hotel industry, biographies of South Australians, the city of Adelaide and the Adelaide Park Lands. She has published The Adelaide Park Lands: a social history (Wakefield Press, 2010) and a novel, The Noon Lady of Towitta, (Wakefield, 2010).
Tags:
Aborigines,
Boston Bay,
Broken Hill Proprietary Ltd (BHP),
catchments,
closer settlement,
company town,
diptheria epidemic,
eating houses,
Elliston Massacre,
exploration,
Eyre Edward John,
Eyre Peninsula,
Flinders Matthew,
Gawler Ranges,
Goyder’s Line,
gypsum,
heritage,
hospitals,
hotels,
Iron Knob,
isolation,
jetties,
Lipson Captain,
Mallyon WK (architect),
Maurice Price,
mining,
Mortlock WR,
Nullabor Plains,
occupational leases,
pastoral Leases,
pastoralism,
policing,
Poonindie Mission,
Port Lincoln,
Railways,
Scottish migrants,
shepherds,
ship building,
special surveys,
stock routes,
superphosphate,
tyranny of distance,
water conservation,
water supply,
Whaling,
Whyalla
https://discoversouthaustraliashistory.org.au/documents/heritage-of-eyre-peninsula-a-short-history.shtml
