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Hawker [B 14798] • Photograph

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Summary

General view of Hawker in the 1900s. The town was surveyed in 1880 and was named after a member of the South Australian Parliament. It was a thriving railway centre and a wheat producing agricultural region. Among the buildings seen in this photograph are the premises of Henry Gadd's general store, a post office which opened in 1880 and two hotels which opened in 1881.Two flour mills operated in Hawker from 1884 although Dunn's mill closed in 1899 due to failing crops. The first Methodist church was built in 1880 and replaced by a stone building in 1884. There was also a school which had 63 students when it first opened.

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Physical description

Photograph; 20.7 cm x 15.6 cm

Dates / Publication details

1900

Collection

Part of Hawker Collection

Subject

Hawker (S.A.)

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Digitisation information

Date

18/05/2006

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

3,029 x 2,448 pixels (7.4 MP)

Size

22.28 MB

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