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  1. A block on Aldinga's Old Coach Road passed from the family who founded the township to three generations of blacksmiths — the Pengillys, then John Noah Crisp — who kept the district's horses shod and its coaches built for the best part of a century.
    fieldstobarrels.com/posts/aldi

    #Aldinga #SouthAustralia #FleurieuPeninsula #McLarenVale #LocalHistory #SAHistory #HistoricPhotography #OnkaparingaHistory #ColonialHistory #AustralianHistory #HeritagePhotography #PioneerHistory

  2. Publican, brewer, mill-builder, and Member of Parliament — Alexander Anderson founded the township of Morphett Vale and ran the emu hotel for six years. His feud with the Reynells ran for over a decade, ending when the district rallied to drive him from the magistracy months before his death in 1862.

    fieldstobarrels.com/posts/alex

    #SouthAustralia #FleurieuPeninsula #LocalHistory #SAHistory #OnkaparingaHistory #ColonialHistory #AustralianHistory #HeritagePhotography #PioneerHistory

  3. In 1858 a young woman broke a champagne bottle against the new timber bridge at Clarendon. The ford it replaced had tested every cart and carrier on the road south for twenty years. Sixty years later the timber was rotting — the ford pressed into service one last time before a concrete arch took its place.

    #Clarendon #SouthAustralia #FleurieuPeninsula #LocalHistory #SAHistory #HistoricPhotography #OnkaparingaHistory #ColonialHistory #AustralianHistory #HeritagePhotography #PioneerHistory

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