Franklyn, South Australia
| Franklyn South Australia | |||||||||||||
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| Postcode(s) | 5421 [1] | ||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | Regional Council of Goyder | ||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Stuart [1] | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division(s) | Grey [1] | ||||||||||||
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| Footnotes | Coordinates[2] | ||||||||||||
Franklyn is a rural locality in the Mid North region of South Australia, situated in the Regional Council of Goyder.[1] It was established in August 2000, when boundaries were formalised for the "long established local name". It comprises the northern section of the cadastral Hundred of Wonna.[2] The name stems from a Franklyn House in Devonshire.[3]
Franklyn was surveyed as a government town in May 1880, but the town was formally declared to have ceased to exist on 9 February 1984.[2] Franklyn Post Office opened on 1 October 1883, was downgraded to a receiving office in January 1910, and closed on 9 July 1917.[4] A second post office, Pandappa Dam, operated in the south-east of the locality from 1 April 1883 until around 1908.[5][6] A school opened under the name of Wonna in 1883, was renamed Franklyn in 1886, and closed in 1916.[3]
In October 1908, a correspondent to The Chronicle in Adelaide wrote that "there used to be a lot of people living here, but [...] it is very lonely now. There are only about a dozen families here, mostly farmers [...] and dairymen. We have a school and a church, however, so that we are not total barbarians. We also have a post-office, although we have only one mail a week."[7] In 1916, it was proposed to rename the town Wonna to avoid confusion with "Franklin", a subdivision in what is now the Adelaide suburb of Pennington, but this did not occur.[3][8]
The 1051-hectare Pandappa Conservation Park is located entirely within Franklyn.[1][9]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Search result(s) for Franklyn, 5421". Location SA Map Viewer. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
- 1 2 3 "Search result(s) for Franklyn, 5421". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
- 1 2 3 "Place Names of South Australia - F". State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
- ↑ "Franklyn". Post Office Reference. Premier Postal. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
- ↑ "Pandappa Dam". Post Office Reference. Premier Postal. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
- ↑ "Search result(s) for Pandappa Post Office, Bldg". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
- ↑ "SOMETHING ABOUT FRANKLYN.". Chronicle. LI, (2,617). South Australia. 17 October 1908. p. 46. Retrieved 26 November 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "Search result(s) for Franklin, Subd". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
- ↑ "Parks of the Mid North" (PDF). Department of Environment and Natural Resources. Retrieved 26 November 2016.