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Kelly's Bend Watercolour and Historical Bushfire article from 2019

1986 Grain Trade Re-enactment

Garnet Kelly - pioneer and innovator

 YDHS reflects upon Christmas Day

Farm names: Bald Hills, Inman Valley and Torrens Vale 

Wissanger School Building, 150 years old 

Balquhidder Station once ran 15,000 sheep 

Bowyer Brickyards helped build a community 

Normanville Wesleyan Chapel and cemetery ... to RSL Hall 

Woodvale ... supplier of fresh and dried fruits for the district, plus export

Finniss Valley ... port, flour mill, timber town, and holiday destination 

Early overland transport to Yankalilla and beyond 

 ‘Fairview’ Bald Hills began with a gum slab hut 

Normanville jetty … once served a busy port 

Yoho - birthplace of SA's thoroughbred industry 

Appakaldree – 180 years of history 

Normanville Court House and Police Station

St James Delamere – more than 154 years of history 

Dunstall Cottage – a small home that once housed a large family 

The Taverners of Torrens Vale 

Artist, etcher, and master printmaker of Second Valley 

Saint Mary MacKillop and the Yankalilla connection 

Early settlers to Inman Valley 

Talisker – once SA’s largest silver-lead producer 

Some cheesemakers of Myponga 

Back Valley and Lower Inman – some early history 

Cape Jervis – early settlers of ‘Lands End’ 

Dry stone walls – heritage that should be preserved

Myponga ... Fleurieu Peninsula's 'milk central' 

Bullaparinga … once a village 

Heritage-listed sheep dip served Torrens Vale for more than 50 years 

A Lush history that grew with Inman Valley 

Keeping Tjilbruke’s journey alive 

March 2023 Yankalilla’s first bank … and last 

South Australia’s first war (1899-1902) 

60 years of a reservoir in the Lovely Valley 

Second Valley Soldiers' Memorial Hall – 100 years of history 

140 years of the Yankalilla Show [not included] 

Buses of a bygone era 

Normanville Hotel – more than 170 years of history 

World’s first Living Avenue of Honour at Normanville

Coastal ship remembered at Delamere 

Former sentinel on the hill served vital surveillance role 

Yankalilla Post Office – a centre of communication for almost 180 years 

St Thomas's Church Inman Valley, Parsons, Kellys and Sir Hubert Wilkins 

Brookside and the Smith family

 What is the future for two historic local churches? 

Vale Ray Clarke – a full life lived well 

William George Field … mariner and pioneer pastoralist 

Flax … an early cultivation and export 

The ‘sisters’ Dorrington … distinguished service during WW1 

Alexander Christie … mailman from Cape Jervis 

Dunstall cottage – a community treasure in Normanville 

Myponga plaque unveiling … 50 years on + Book review 

Yankalilla Sea Dragons grew out of a long history of croquet 

Growth of education in the Yankalilla district 

Sport a part of the community from earliest beginnings 

A valley carved out by ice 

Some early observations of Indigenous inhabitants (cont'd) 

Some early observations of the original inhabitants 

Serena Lake and Bible Christian Church 

Hudson Thomas Beare – colonist 

Daniel Leak of Glenburn (Delamere) 

 ‘The Olives’ – the first house on the ‘first’ main street in Yankalilla 

Early wayside inns go by the wayside … 

Henry Kemmis may have been earliest importer of alpacas to Australia 

Historic Hillsley 

British cargo ship holed by German mine in SA waters​

From flour mill to birthplace of a Melbourne Cup winner 

Yankalilla show … more than 160 years of agricultural history 

Alunite from Carrickalinga fills local potash gap during war 

Heritage-listed sheep dip at Torrens Vale

 Tonto Homestead – a long and interesting heritage 

Butterworth’s flour mill and Bungala House 

Fleurieu Peninsula was the hub of Adelaide’s dairy produce 

Australia’s richest uranium find near Myponga 

Bushfires … a part of our past and a feature of our future 

Yaccas a saviour in droughts and economic depression 

South Australia’s first dentist … a man of many attributes 

Observations and occupations of an early settler … 

Influence of the Irish immigrants

 Anacotilla – an early example of innovative agriculture 

Mining to build – Rapid Bay quarry and jetty 

Mining to build – marble and limestone

Mystery of the Yankalilla bank robbery 

Police at Yankalilla and Normanville 

Development of mail, post and telegraph services 

Mining adds to region’s economy 

Introduction of navigational aids for the little sailing ships 

Little sailing ships … sustaining the colony’s economy 

Little sailing ships … underpinning early settlement 

O’Leary’s continue horse-racing legacy of Beau Neire 

From flour mill to successful horse stud 

Colonial horseracing legacy continues on the Fleurieu 

For transport and farming … horses were integral with development