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Mail Coach, Innamincka
The Horse Mail Coach outside Innamincka Hotel.
Noarlunga
View at Noarlunga showing "HorseShoe Hotel. The hotel was first licensed in 1840, only four years after the settlement of South Australia. Originally the hotel had shingles on the roof but later the facade was changed by the erection of a parapet. The hotel provided a welcome stop for the Cobb and Co. coaches and bullock teams en route for Willunga. The photograph shows the hotel which also provided stabling and stock yards
Phillip's Ponds Eating House
Phillip's Ponds Eating House, on the outskirts of Woomera, which may have been on a Cobb and Co route to head north to Alice Springs. This building was central to the advance party to establish the Woomera Rocket Range in the late 1940s, early 1950s. The building is to the right of the man made Phillip Ponds catchment dam [information provided by a researcher].
Peleg Whitford Jackson
Peleg Whitford Jackson, river steamer captain. He was born in Vermont, America in approximately 1834 and died April 24, 1912. He was known as a transportation entrepreneur. He captained "Settler" in 1862 and 1863, and "Lady Daly" in 1865. He also was involved in the Victorian Coach Company and the South Australian branch of Cobb and Co. He was declared bankrupt in 1870 and was married to Anna Chambers with six children. See B 15993 for the family of Anna Chambers
Mail Coach
Mail coach about to leave Wilcannia for Terowie. By 1880 Cobb and Co. coaches were travelling from Glen Innes to Wilcannia and down to Cooma and throughout Victoria to the South Australian border and beyond. Terowie is located in the mid north of South Australia. Wilcannia is located in north western New South Wales
Pageant of Progress
Cobb and Co. coach with an escort of S.A. Troopers.
Delivering mail by camel
INNAMINCKA: Camels hitched to a Cobb and Co coach after taking over from a mail car in order to cross desert country.
Delivering mail by camel
INNAMINCKA: Camels hitched to a Cobb and Co coach after taking over from a mail car in order to cross desert country: view 2.
Delivering mail by camel
INNAMINCKA: Camels hitched to a Cobb and Co coach after taking over from a mail car in order to cross desert country: view 3.