Balhannah Anglican church built in 1865. ידי denisbin
Balhannah - oldest town in the Onkaparinga River Valley.
In 1839 the Mt Barker Special Survey of 4,000 acres for William Hampden Dutton, Duncan McFarlane and John Finniss was conducted. Early land purchasers included Osmond Gilles the SA Treasurer who bought 240 acres from Dutton, McFarlane and Finniss. Another purchaser of part of Dutton’s land near the Onkaparinga River was made by a Scot called James Thomas. He soon laid out a small town in early 1840 which he named Balhannah after his sister Hannah and his mother Belle. He opened a small inn or pub on his land for thirsty travellers in 1840. Thomas was lucky for in 1841 the Great Eastern Road Act approved the surveying of a road from Crafers via Balhannah and Nairne to Wellington on the Murray and eventually on to the colony of Victoria. The first settlers grew maize, potatoes and wheat and they kept horses, pigs and cows. Despite the new road to Adelaide via Grunthal the town only started to develop in 1850 with the first Post Office opening with Whitfield as Post Master and the Gold Cross Hotel with W Anderson as proprietor. The Gold Cross Hotel is now the Balhannah Hotel. A year later in 1851 George Fenwick opened the first private school. The partially government funded school opened in 1857 after deputations from the town led by Francis Duffield of Shady Grove. It was a fine structure in gothic style and still stands opposite the Anglican Church on the main road. It cost £325 and has been a private residence for many years. The new state school was built half way to Oakbank in 1938 when this Balhannah School finally closed. Several of the early head teachers were members of the Monks family of Shady Grove. In 1855 a new road between Balhannah and Adelaide by via Greenhill Road was proposed but not completed until the late 1860s. A small copper mine operated in the hills near Balhannah at Bonney Flat between 1866 and 1876 but no great returns were ever obtained. The first St Thomas’ Anglican Church was built 1848 being replaced by the current church in 1865.The nearby Parish Hall was erected in 1906 and the rectory adjacent in 1928. The church area is bounded by Glebe Road. Between 1846-51 the SA government gave land grants to the churches. The Anglican Church at Balhannah obtained one such grant in 1851. The first Methodist Church in Balhannah was built in 1931 on land donated by William Johncock who is buried in the Anglican Church cemetery! The church is a fine stone building with the foundation stone being laid by Reverend Dunn.
Fruit trees grew well in the valley here and in 1908 Wicks Nurseries were established to provide peaches, apricots, plums and almonds for commercial growers. They still operate. From 1890 to 1914 a jam factory called the Glengyle Jam Factory, owned by Joseph Grasby, operated in the town. Then in 1919 a Cold Stores was formed to manage the export of apples to England and Messrs Wicks and Filsell pushed for this to occur. A saw mill operated to make packing cases for the apples between 1904 and 1923 and in 1894, once butter could be refrigerated for export to England, a butter factory was opened. It closed in 1929. Potatoes remain as a major crop of the district but fruit cropping has almost disappeared. This small town was excited when the railway arrived in 1883 as it pushed eastwards towards Edward’s Crossing (Murray Bridge) and eventually Melbourne by 1887. Later in 1918 a small branch line was opened to Mt Pleasant partly to provide transport for race goers to the famous Easter Steeplechase meeting at Oakbank. The Balhannah Institute was built in 1920 as a World War One Memorial. Note the name of the man who opened the hall, Mr Joseph Grasby, one of the pioneer families of Balhannah and Bonney Flat.
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