Appila, South Australia
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Aerial view of Appila, 2015 | |||||||||||||
Appila Location in South Australia | |||||||||||||
| Coordinates: 33°3′2″S 138°25′41″E / 33.05056°S 138.42806°E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | South Australia | ||||||||||||
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| Established | 1874 | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 91 (SAL 2021)[2] | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 5480 | ||||||||||||
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Appila (earlier known as Yarrowie) is a locality in the Mid North of South Australia east of the lower Flinders Ranges. It occupies much of the eastern half of the Hundred of Appila and a strip on the western side of the adjacent Hundred of Tarcowie.[3]
History
The town of Yarrowie (an Aboriginal word for hunting ground) was established in 1872 following the proclamation of the Strangways Land Act for closer settlement in 1869. The town grew quickly as settlers moved to the area, and by the 1880s it had two hotels, four blacksmiths, three carpenters, Protestant, Catholic and government schools, a post office and telegraph station as well as other stores. In 1877 the name was changed to Appila-Yarrowie then later to just Appila to remove confusion with other towns including Yarcowie, Tarcowie, Terowie, Caltowie and Willowie.[4]
When the Lutheran school was closed by the state government in 1918, it had 33 students.[5]
See also
References
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Appila (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Appila (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
- ^ "Search result for "Appila" (Record ID SA0055826)". Geoscience Australia. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
- ^ Klaassen, Nic. "Appila". Flinders Ranges Research. Archived from the original on 24 February 2022. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "CLOSING GERMAN SCHOOLS". The Express and Telegraph. Vol. LIV, no. 16, 152. South Australia. 12 June 1917. p. 3 (SPECIAL WAR EDITION). Retrieved 22 July 2017 – via National Library of Australia.