Kingsford Homestead
| Place type: | Building |
|---|---|
| Town or Locality: | Gawler |
"Kingsford, Hundred of - In the County of Chandos, proclaimed on 26th September 1912. Stephen King, a member of John McD. Stuart exploration party in 1861-62, was born at the family home in the Gawler District called Kingsford in 1841, and died at Beulah Park in 1915. Land in the Hundred was first taken up under pastoral lease no. 2506 by James White in 1875." extracted from Manning's Place Names of South Australia - 1990 Gillingham Printers P/L Adelaide SA.
ISBN 054376875 0 5.
Built by flour mill owner Stephen King near Shea-oak Log where the bullockies travelling from Kapunda forded the North Para river about 8kms upstream from Gawler.
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