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Eagle On The Hill, South Australia

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66: 862: 241: 50: 73: 260:, died at the hotel the following August. His wife, Elizabeth Fordham, successfully applied for the licence, and died aged 68 at the hotel in September 1866. Their son, William Robert Fordham (died 1873), next had the licence, then transferred it to James Tighe (died 1876) in January 1869, but the association with the Fordhams continued for many years. 231:
in 2000, through the ridge underneath Eagle On The Hill, the locality went into a precipitous decline. It is now a relic of its former self; its restaurant, hotel, bottle shop and service stations have all closed, leaving behind a quiet suburb with a small resident population. Eagle On The Hill is
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Abraham Fordham was its lessee in 1854, naming it the "Eagle Inn", changing it to "Eagle on the Hill" in 1856. Fordham was found insolvent in 1861 but was able to continue trading until April 1864, when the lease on the "Eagle on the Hill" (better known as "Fordham's") was re-advertised. Fordham,
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The Eagle on the Hill Hotel was built by George Stevenson in 1850 and initially was run as an eating-house, then opened in 1853 as a hotel by William Anderson, who named it
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The hotel has twice been ravaged by bushfires. First in 1899; a fire destroyed all of the old hotel with the exception of two rooms. Again on
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now a very popular spot for downhill speedboarders who travel down the road at speeds close to 65 kilometres per hour.
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Eagle On The Hill is directly above the tunnel entrance, with the old road winding round from Devils Elbow
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instead of up the ridge past the hotel. It is now a private residence.
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is an unbounded locality in the Australian state of
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Eagle on the Hill, South Australia
South Australia

Eagle On The Hill is located in South Australia
Coordinates
34°58′41″S 138°40′20″E / 34.978066°S 138.672305°E / -34.978066; 138.672305
LGA(s)
Adelaide Hills Council
Crafers West
South Australia
Crafers West
Adelaide Hills
Adelaide metropolitan area
Mount Barker Road
South Eastern Freeway
Heysen Tunnels

Grenfell Street
Ash Wednesday
South Eastern Freeway
Heysen Tunnels
History of Eagle on the Hill




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"The Toilers of the Hills"
South Australian Register
"East Torrens District Council"

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