Wasleys, South Australia
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Wasleys is a small town north-west of Gawler, South Australia. Roseworthy College is located around 6 km (3.7 mi) south of the town.
History
The town is named after Joseph Wasley, who arrived in the
The name mudla wirra comes from the
After British colonisation of South Australia, some early settlers in the region made notable contributions to Australian agriculture:
- In 1843, John Ridley invented a machine known as "Ridley's Stripper", which removed the heads of grain, with the threshing being done later by a separate machine.[12][13][14]
- In the 1860s, a local farmer named Charles Mullen, an Irish immigrant, created a method of ploughing which was known as "mullenising", using what became known as a scrub roller or mallee roller. Mullen invented an implement, used throughout Australia, which was the precursor of the stump-jump plough.[15][16][17]
- In 1866–1877, farmer Richard Marshall's experiments with cross-breeding various wheat varieties and improving soil conditions using bone meal on the land led to a reduction of the "red rust" problem in wheat.[14]
In 1869, the
In 1873, two townships were laid out on either side of the railway line: Ridley on the hotel side and Wasleys on the other. George Thompson, a printer who lived in North Adelaide was responsible for laying out the Wasleys.[4] By September 1873, Wasleys had been fully laid out, and a local newspaper publicised the achievement in a short article about "Wasley Township" stating "There can be no question that this is an excellent locality for a township", going on to say that it "[had] been laid out for the proprietor (Mr. G. Thomson) by Mr. Warren, and is very conveniently situated on the north side of the Mallala and Templers road, [with] the Railway Station occupying the opposite or south side.[18] The settlement was advertised as "Ridley Township - Wasleys Station", seeking to attract people looking for good agricultural land, later splitting into two townships, called Ridleyton and Wasleys.[14] The Wasleys plots were auctioned, while Ridley plots were sold privately.[4]
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On 12 April 1970, a bus collided with a passenger train on the road from Wasleys to
Regular passenger trains through the town ceased in the 1980s. The line was formally closed in the 2000s.
In 2015, the
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References
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Wasleys (urban centre and locality)". Australian Census 2021.
- ^ "Federal electoral division of Grey, boundary gazetted 20 July 2018". Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
- ^ "Government Gazette (Extraordinary)". The South Australian. Vol. X, no. 894. 3 December 1847. p. 4. Retrieved 31 May 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ a b c d e f McDougall & Vines (2004). Heritage Survey of the Light Regional Council: Volume One, Part A (PDF) (Report). Retrieved 31 May 2021.
- ^ McDougall & Vines (2004). Heritage Survey of the Light Regional Council: Volume 2 Local Heritage Places (Part C) - Western & Eastern Light (PDF) (Report). Retrieved 31 May 2021.
- ^ Manning, Geoff (2002). "Morphettville - Munno Para". Manning Index of South Australian History. Place Names. State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
- ^ "Wasleys". Light Regional Council. Retrieved 27 May 2021.
- ^ Manning, Geoff (2012). "M [Chapter]". A Compendium of the Place Names of South Australia (PDF) (Revised ed.). Retrieved 31 May 2021.
Originally published as The place names of our land: a South Australian anthology, Modbury, South Australia: Gould Genealogy & History, 2010
- ^ "Songlines". Port Adelaide Enfield. 13 August 2014. Retrieved 27 May 2021.
- ^ Schultz), Chester (13 August 2020). "Mulla-yakki (Murla-yaki)and Mullayakki-parri (Murlayaki-pari)" (PDF). Place Name Summary (PNS) 8/17.
- Schurmann, C.W. (1840). "Outlines of a grammar, vocabulary, and phraseology, of the Aboriginal language of South Australia, spoken by the natives in and for some distance around Adelaide". University of Adelaide. Retrieved 31 May 2021 – via Adelaide Research & Scholarship.
- OCLC 70677943.
- ^ Serle, Percival (1949). "Ridley, John". Dictionary of Australian Biography. Sydney: Angus & Robertson.
- ^ a b c d e "Wasleys". Light Regional Council. 30 March 2020. Retrieved 27 May 2021.
- ^ "Scrub clearing in the Mallee". SA Memory. State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
- ISBN 0-908029-49-7. Retrieved 25 May 2021.)
{{cite book}}:|website=ignored (help)CS1 maint: others (link - ^ "Charles Mullen". Monument Australia. Retrieved 27 May 2021.
- Gawler. 27 September 1873.
[...] Mr. Wilkinson has in hand the sale of township lands near the Wasley Railway Station. The township has been laid out [...] and is very conveniently situated on the north side of the Mallala and Templers road [...] There can be no question that this is an excellent locality for a township, were there no special argument in favor of it; but, with so important a commercial feature as the Railway Station adjoining, we have long been surprised that a township has not [already] originated at so convenient a spot.
- ^ Stansfield, Stuart (2 July 2019). "Wasleys train and bus level crossing crash still evokes vivid memories for rescue workers". ABC South East SA. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
- ^ "SA bushfires mapped: What happened where". ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 26 November 2015. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
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