NEWS UPDATE:

13/08/08

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The Longest Taxi Fare re-enactment Adelaide to Darwin HAS SUCCESSFULLY REACHED DARWIN. ARRIVED 4pm Wednesday, July 9th, 2008.

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Increased mining exploration in the William Creek area! See recent Prominent Hill Mine photos.

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THE HISTORY OF WILLIAM CREEK: 

  • The name William Creek derives from a lake and a creek, which flow to the north and south of the town. John McDougall Stuart named Lake William in 1859. “William’ was the second son of John Chambers, one of Stuart’s co-sponsors for his many expeditions.
  • William Creek is one of South Australia’s smallest townships (population average 16 people) and lies within the world’s largest pastoral station, Anna Creek, which at its peak was 34, 000 sq. km, almost half the size of Tasmania. The pastoral originals of the district date back to March 1863.

OTHER HISTORICAL FACTS:

The Overland Telegraph Line was completed in the area in 1871.
  • Australia in the mid 1800s was a land isolated by distance and divided by two very different cultures. John McDougall Stuart's incredible crossing of this inhospitable land enabled Charles Todd to construct a telegraph line through the heart of the continent, bringing Australia to the world, and the world to Australia.

    Its construction heralded the start of a new communications era every bit as revolutionary as the internet. News from overseas arrived in hours rather than months, securing Adelaide's position as the centre for early colonial communications.

    It made Todd a hero - but it cost Stuart his life...

     

  •  The Ghan Railway was officially opened to William Creek in 1889.

    • (See photograph below of railway line).

     HISTORY OF THE WILLIAM CREEK HOTEL:

    • The William Creek Hotel started out as a boarding house circa 1886. It became a store, wine bar and boarding house shortly thereafter. No record can be found as to when it became a hotel.

    • The bar in the William Creek Hotel was originally the bar of the Coward Springs Hotel.
    • The Hotel is presently run by Neville and Adriana Jacobs.
      This outback pub sports a bar where tourists and business cards abound, a restaurant, over the counter snacks, petrol station, tyre repair shop, accommodation, camping grounds and much much more. A Golf Course exists to the west of the Hotel.

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