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The first was in 1839 when Inman led a police party to the Weston Flat district to investigate conflict resulting in the death of one over-lander and an unknown number of
Aboriginals. Months later he was back again when he took part in the exploration expedition of Governor Gawler from North West
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The first
Lutheran people in the district were from the Immannuel Synod and met in homes from 1871, building St Stephan's Lutheran Church in 1874. The congregation of St Paul built its own building a few kilometres further west, also in 1874, followed by a larger building next door (north side) in
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Later in the 1840s a pastoral property named
Narcoota Station was established. Nearby is Mount Rufus, where gold was discovered in 1868, but without much result. With closer settlement in the latter part of the 1800s, many grain farmers moved into the district, such that by 1900 there were busy
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in 1967, St John's and St Paul's combined in the St Paul's building as
Trinity Lutheran Church. In 2009, St Stephan's merged with Trinity and formed Neales Flat Lutheran Church, meeting in the reconsecrated St John's building. A single cemetery lies behind these two church buildings. A separate
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name for the area, is of obscure meaning. It may be a corruption of 'Narcoona' – seeing – in reference to being a lookout over the Murray Plains. European settlers adopted it from the outset, although it was variously spelt at first (examples are
Nancoota, Tharcoota, and Nicota).
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1893 with the original building used as a school. The school became a government school in 1917 and closed in 1942. The school building was used by the St John's congregation from 1894 until that congregation built its own building in 1912 immediately south of the school. With
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Geologically, the beds outcropping along
Narcoota Creek are so typical in structure and stratigraphy of geological features occurring in several locations throughout the North Mount Lofty Ranges, that the name
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In 1841 Inman was there again after his own over-landing party was attacked near
Chowilla, losing 5,000 sheep. He again camped there as part of the 68-man police party led by Commissioner of Police
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schools and churches. Over a century later many stone ruins attest to the failure of close settlement, but those pioneering foundations produced the farms and grazing properties which thrive there
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Apart from overlanding parties droving large mobs of livestock from New South Wales, Narcoota
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Neales Flat Lutheran Church, formerly St John's Lutheran Church constructed 1912
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cemetery is near St Stephan's church, which has been sold.
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271:Australian House of Representatives
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579:"Neales Flat Lutheran Church"
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890:Neales Flat
880:Mount Bryan
850:Hansborough
744:Brady Creek
610:11 February
498:George Grey
487:Mount Bryan
448:Blanchetown
432:overlanders
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314:Robertstown
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199:Sutherlands
135:Postcode(s)
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81:Coordinates
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970:Worlds End
915:Point Pass
910:Pine Creek
734:Booborowie
530:References
424:indigenous
400: (
378:34°15′43″S
318:Point Pass
290:politician
251:region in
119:Population
935:Steinfeld
905:Peep Hill
875:Mongolata
830:Gum Creek
800:Emu Downs
330:Peep Hill
310:Peep Hill
249:Mid North
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865:Koonoona
820:Frankton
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485:Bend to
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350:Narcoota
345:Narcoota
306:Lutheran
269:and the
223:Frankton
211:Brownlow
94:139°10′E
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895:Ngapala
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840:Hallett
805:Eudunda
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729:Baldina
719:Apoinga
557:28 June
518:today.
326:Eudunda
300:History
247:in the
245:Eudunda
192:Eudunda
91:34°14′S
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796:(part)
794:Dutton
764:Bundey
749:Bright
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145:LGA(s)
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