Franklyn, South Australia
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| Franklyn South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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  Franklyn | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 33°08′18″S 139°04′18″E / 33.13847°S 139.071736°E[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 0 (SAL 2021)[2] | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5421[3] | ||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | Regional Council of Goyder[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Region | Yorke and Mid North[1] | ||||||||||||||
| County | Kimberley[1] | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Stuart[3] | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Grey[3] | ||||||||||||||
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| Footnotes | Adjoining localities[4] | ||||||||||||||
Franklyn is a rural locality in the Mid North region of South Australia, situated in the Regional Council of Goyder.[3] 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.[4] The name stems from a Franklyn House in Devonshire.[5]
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.[4] Franklyn Post Office opened on 1 October 1883, was downgraded to a receiving office in January 1910, and closed on 9 July 1917.[6] A second post office, Pandappa Dam, operated in the south-east of the locality from 1 April 1883 until around 1908.[7][8] A school opened under the name of Wonna in 1883, was renamed Franklyn in 1886, and closed in 1916, while Pandappa Dam School opened in 1893 and closed in 1898.[5][9]
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."[10] 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.[5][11]
The 1051-hectare Pandappa Conservation Park is located entirely within Franklyn.[3][12]
