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The station is on land proclaimed as a reserve on 5 June 1962 and now part of the Alice Springs Telegraph Station Historical Reserve. [20] A number of stone buildings have now been restored. The historical reserve was listed on the now-defunct Register of the National Estate in 1980. [ 21 ]
In 1932, The Bungalow moved to the old Alice Springs Telegraph Station, was proclaimed an Aboriginal reserve on 8 December 1932 with an area of 273 ha (670 acres); [9] this made the land officially "off-limits" for non-Aboriginal people. The site had been vacated by the telegraph staff in the months before and significant alterations were made ...
The Alice Springs Telegraph Station is located within the Alice Springs Telegraph Station Historical Reserve, four kilometres north of the Alice Springs town centre in the Northern Territory of Australia. Established in 1872 to relay messages between Darwin\nand Adelaide, it is the original site of the first European settlement in central ...
Alice Springs Telegraph Station, preserved in the Alice Springs Telegraph Station Historical Preserve. It was established in 1872 as one of 12 stations along the Overland Telegraph Line from Adelaide to Darwin and is the best preserved of the 12. [2] Beechworth Telegraph Station, Beechworth is open as a visitor's center. [3]
Amelia Kunoth née Pavey (c. 1880s – 1984) was an Aboriginal Australian woman who developed well-known cattle stations in Central Australia, including Utopia, Bond Springs, Hamilton Downs and Tempe Downs. [1] [2] [3] Amelia Kunoth, née Pavey, holding Edna Bradshaw at the Alice Springs Telegraph Station. Photo dated 1906.
Ross was born on 6 April 1936 at Mosquito Creek near Barrow Creek at Neutral Junction Station the son of the Scottish cattle station owner. [1] Ross is the great-grandson of explorer John Ross, who came to Central Australia as part of the surveying teams for the Overland Telegraph Line, its most famous repeater station, the place where his great-grandson Alec later worked for a large part of ...
Alice Springs town camps began as early as the 1880s when Europeans first came to Central Australia following John McDouall Stuart's expedition, which was soon followed by pastoralists and, from 1872, the telegraph line and the establishment of the Alice Springs Telegraph Station. [3]
Mabel Mary Taylor in 1906. Mabel Mary Taylor (1874 – 26 January 1909) was an Australian diarist, who is best remembered for the 18 months that she spent in Alice Springs as the governess to the family of Thomas Bradshaw, the postmaster at the Alice Springs Telegraph Station between 1905 and 1907.