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3 unusual facts about Gould Creek


Gould Creek, South Australia

The bachelor partners, aged twenty-three, first visited this locality in December 1837 when they accompanied Colonel William Light on his exploration to discover the Barossa Valley.

Gould Creek is located in the City of Tea Tree Gully and City of Playford local government areas, and is adjacent to Greenwith, Salisbury Heights and Hillbank, as well as the rural districts of Yatala Vale and Upper Hermitage and the town of One Tree Hill.

Their squatters’ homestead, with mud chimney and thatched reed roof, known as Fisher and Handcock’s Station, was sketched by William Light and was one of the earliest to be built outside Adelaide.



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