Flour Mill, Mount Barker |
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| Title : | Flour Mill, Mount Barker |
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| Creator : | Sweet, Samuel White, photographer | ||
| Date of creation : | ca. 1872 | ||
| Format : | Photograph | ||
| Dimensions : | 149 x 207 mm | ||
| Contributor : | State Library of South Australia | ||
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| Description : |
J Dunn & Co.'s Flour Mill, horsedrawn and bullock wagons loading and unloading wheat sacks. John Dunn's mill opened at Mount Barker in the Mount Lofty Ranges in 1844 and was the first steam-powered flour mill in the colony outside of Adelaide. During its 50 years of operation 532,053 bags of wheat were deposited at the mill, producing 425,648 bags of flour. |
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| Related names : | J Dunn & Co. |
| Period : | 1852-1883 |
| Place : | Mount Barker |
| Region : | Mt Lofty Ranges and Eastern Plain |
| Further reading : | 'An historic mill: John Dunn & Co.'s jubliee', The South Australian chronicle, 4 August 1894, p. 9, col. c Then and now, photographic Mount Barker , Mount Barker, SA : Mount Barker and District Branch of the National Trust of South Australia, 2001 |
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