Personalities Life on the Range – Chapter 9 Hilda E Thomson No book on Avenue Range would be complete without a tribute being paid to Hilda Thomson for her contribution to the district.Hilda was born in 1901 and was educated at the Avenue School. She has spent...
Do you mind the time Life on the Range – Chapter 10 “But we had a Telephone”Reminiscences by Elva PaltridgeIt was in the September of 1932, in the middle of the depression, and after a very wet winter in the South East. My first trip through the...
Avenue Range’s first European settler: John ‘Jacky’ White Most of us have heard or seen the name Jacky White, but very few of us know who he was and why his name is preserved in our local history. Let’s explore the man behind the name and find out how he found...
South East Drainage System Over 150 years ago, in 1863, an important inspection of the South East took place by South Australian government officials, George Goyder (Surveyor General), William Hanson (Engineer-in-Chief and architect) and William Milne (Commissioner of...
Sad Times in the Early 1900s We should take our hats off to the pioneering families that came before us. They had a tough time living in this region and they had plenty to endure. Here’s a sad article in the Naracoorte Herald in 1906 reporting the death of young...
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