Stone Hut
Town in South Australia
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Stone Hut is a small town in the Mid-north of South Australia, situated on the Horrocks Highway (section of Main North Road) midway between Laura and Wirrabara.
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| Coordinates: 33°06′11″S 138°17′53″E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | South Australia | ||||||||||||
| Region | Yorke and Mid North[1] | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 30 (SAL 2021)[2] | ||||||||||||
| Time zone | UTC+9:30 (ACST) | ||||||||||||
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+10:30 (ACST) | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 5480 | ||||||||||||
| County | Victoria | ||||||||||||
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History
Stone Hut was founded in 1874 as a subdivision of part section 3522, Hundreds of Booyoolie and Appila by Robert Hall of Jamestown and John Henderson of Glen Osmond. It was named for a four-room hut built in the early 1850s by stonemason Thomas Long,[3] which served as a shelter for shepherds and later as a mail coach station for Cobb and Co on the route between Clare and Port Augusta.[4]
The town received a boost when the Wheatley's "Old Bakery" moved thence from Wirrabara around 2005.
