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Peterborough is a town in the mid north of South Australia, in wheat country, just off the Barrier Highway. It was originally named Petersburg after the landowner, Peter Doecke, who sold land to create the town. It was one of 69 places in South Australia renamed in 1917 due to anti-German sentiments during World War I.
The South Australian Nomenclature Act 1917 authorised the compilation and gazetting of a list of place-names contained in a report of the previous October prepared by a parliamentary "nomenclature committee", and authorised the Governor of South Australia, by proclamation, to "alter any place-name which he deems to be of enemy origin to some ...
Rank Urban centre Population 2001 Census Population 2006 Census Population 2011 Census Population 2016 Census Population 2021 Census [1]. 1: Adelaide: 1,066,103: 1,040,719
The District Council of Peterborough is a local government area in the Yorke and Mid North region of South Australia. [2] The principal town and council seat is Peterborough; it also includes the localities of Cavenagh, Dawson, Hardy, Minvalara, Nackara, Oodla Wirra, Paratoo, Parnaroo, Sunnybrae, Ucolta and Yongala.
Corporate Town of Peterborough council, c. 1901. The Corporate Town of Peterborough was a local government area in South Australia centred on the town of Peterborough.It came into existence on 7 October 1886 when it separated from the surrounding District Council of Yongala.
The change of name in May 1919 to The Times and Northern Advertiser, Peterborough, South Australia was made in response to the government's wish to remove Germanic placenames, but was not done gladly. [8] He founded the Booleroo Magnet and purchased the Orroroo Enterprise from Colonel Tom Hancock in 1928 and took over the Weekly Times of ...
The Steamtown Heritage Rail Centre ("Centre") is a static railway museum based in the former railway workshops located in Peterborough, South Australia. Peterborough was the administrative and service centre for the Peterborough Division of the South Australian Railways, [1] employing up to 1,500 people in the workshops during its heyday. The ...
This article lists places in Australia that were given names of places in England by English emigrants and explorers. It also includes place names where there is a similar place name in England, even if one is not directly derived from the other.