Hansborough, South Australia facts for kids
| Hansborough South Australia |
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Ruins located at Hansborough
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| Established | 1865 | ||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5374 | ||||||||||||
| Elevation | 333 m (1,093 ft) | ||||||||||||
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| LGA(s) | Regional Council of Goyder | ||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Stuart | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division(s) | Wakefield | ||||||||||||
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Hansborough is a locality along the former Morgan railway line adjacent to the Thiele Highway, in South Australia's Mid North region. It is situated 9 kilometres south-west of Eudunda and 18 kilometres north-east of Kapunda. The Light River runs through the locality.
The town was originally surveyed in July 1865 and is named after early pastoralist and overlander Frederick Hansborough Dutton (1812-1890), who founded Anlaby Station, near Kapunda. Today it is virtually a ghost town, with a number of ruins at the site.
The Hundred of Neales School, later Freshwater Creek School, opened in 1927 in a former manager's residence on the Kingscourt property and closed in 1940.
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