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Pioneer Settlers of Wirrabara DistrictPrint Page 
22-March-2021
Photographs supplied by Stephen Langman
The plaque commemorates the pioneer settlers of the District.
A timber milling industry was established in Wirrabara during the early 1850s. The town was surveyed in 1874. In 1877 the first government forest nursery in Australia was planted in the nearby Wirrabara forest
The Wilmington railway line was extended north from Gladstone and Laura through Wirrabara and Booleroo Centre to Wilmington in the 1910s after the locals had been pleading with the government to build it for many years.
Location
| Address: | B82 Highway, Wirrabara, 5481 |
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| State: | SA |
| Area: | AUS |
| GPS Coordinates: | Lat: -33.033801 Long: 138.269231 Note: GPS Coordinates are approximate. |
Details
| Monument Type: | Plaque |
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| Monument Theme: | Landscape |
| Sub-Theme: | Settlement |
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Dedication
| Approx. Monument Dedication Date: | 1974 |
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Front Inscription
Source: MAA tribute to the fortitude and courage of the pioneer settlers of this District
1974
Monument details supplied by Monument Australia - www.monumentaustralia.org.au
