Stockwell in the Barossa Valley wine region.Stockwell steam power flourmill built in 1856. Chimney stack needed to burn the wood to create the steam. Only flourmill with a chimney stack left in the Barossa Valley. Chimney stack built in 1890.Owned by Boer
Stockwell.
Land was subdivided by Samuel Stockwell in 1856 to create a private town. He later committed suicide in 1870. The town school opened in 1867 and became a state school in 1875 with the current building erected a few years after that around 1880. The Stockwell School closed in 1971 and became a private residence. It is interesting as the school room was left with protruding bluestones ready to add another classroom which was obviously never required.
A Lutheran church was built in Stockwell in 1863. This was replaced with the current church in 1904. Like many Barossa Valley Lutheran churches a tower with a witch’s hat type spire was added some years later. A roller flourmill driven by steam thus requiring a very tall chimney to produce the steam was opened in 1890. It still stands in Stockwell as a reminder of the grain growing rather than vine growing days of the Valley. It is probably the only flourmill with a tall chimney stack left in the Barossa Valley from the 19th century. A small Institute opened in Stockwell in 1911. The town got a railway siding when the Nuriootpa to Truro railway spur line was opened in 1917. Stockwell still has a hotel and grain silos although there is no longer a railway station there.
Stockwell in the Barossa Valley wine region.Stockwell steam power flourmill built in 1856. Chimney stack needed to burn the wood to create the steam. Only flourmill with a chimney stack left in the Barossa Valley. Chimney stack built in 1890.Owned by Boer
Stockwell.
Land was subdivided by Samuel Stockwell in 1856 to create a private town. He later committed suicide in 1870. The town school opened in 1867 and became a state school in 1875 with the current building erected a few years after that around 1880. The Stockwell School closed in 1971 and became a private residence. It is interesting as the school room was left with protruding bluestones ready to add another classroom which was obviously never required.
A Lutheran church was built in Stockwell in 1863. This was replaced with the current church in 1904. Like many Barossa Valley Lutheran churches a tower with a witch’s hat type spire was added some years later. A roller flourmill driven by steam thus requiring a very tall chimney to produce the steam was opened in 1890. It still stands in Stockwell as a reminder of the grain growing rather than vine growing days of the Valley. It is probably the only flourmill with a tall chimney stack left in the Barossa Valley from the 19th century. A small Institute opened in Stockwell in 1911. The town got a railway siding when the Nuriootpa to Truro railway spur line was opened in 1917. Stockwell still has a hotel and grain silos although there is no longer a railway station there.