Geranium. The workshop and residence of Griffen plumbers carpenters and tank builders in Geranium.
Geranium. District population 83.
The Hundred of Price was declared in 1906 and the town for the Hundred was to be Geranium. Its location was based around a government bore sunk in 1897 for future farmers on a site of a water soak known to the Ngarkat people. The district was surveyed in 1906 after the rail line had been completed but the first town lots did not sell in the newly surveyed town of germanium until 1910. It was named after the wild geraniums of the district.
From its beginnings in 1910 Mallee stumps and roots were railed back to Adelaide from Geranium and elsewhere. Eudunda Farmers had a weighbridge installed at Geranium in 1911, the same year that they opened a General Store in the town. It was the 10th Eudunda Farmers Store in SA on the corner of Railway Terrace and Price Street. The first settlers included a mix of English and German background families. Apart from new disease resistant wheat varieties a lot of oaten hay was grown in the district. This was still the era when farmers had teams of six to twelve draft horses to pull the Mallee rollers and wheat ploughs and harvesters. Some areas were lucky enough to have tea tree suitable for the brush fences of Adelaide suburban houses! As the town emerged a school opened in 1912; Methodist Church services began in 1910 in the Institute; the timber framed Methodist Church opened in 1954; an Anglican Church was built south of the railway line in 1968. The Anglican Church is now the Post Office. A galvanised iron Institute for community social functions was quickly put up in 1909 with a new solid stone replacement Institute opening in May 1922. It was built in front of the old iron hall which was demolished in 1952. The stone Institute was demolished in 2006 but it used to stand opposite the current memorial cairn on Railway Terrace next to the original Eudunda farmers store. The Geranium Area School catering for high school students opened in 1965 with 247 pupils. Geranium only just survives as a town. The school was downgraded from an Area school to a primary school in 1990 and now it is closed despite two large classroom blocks and other facilities. It closed in 2022. Students can be bussed to Lameroo Area School. Some years ago when the general store was put on the market and no buyer could be found the town bought the store and operated it as a community store. This store was the second store built for Eudunda Farmers in 1963. It is now permanently closed. The 2021 census recorded 83 residents for the town. Although Geranium is a 20th century town it had a number of structures on the Register of the National Estate including the 1922 Institute and the railway station site and the town bore sunk in 1906 - but these buildings are now gone.
Geranium. The workshop and residence of Griffen plumbers carpenters and tank builders in Geranium.
Geranium. District population 83.
The Hundred of Price was declared in 1906 and the town for the Hundred was to be Geranium. Its location was based around a government bore sunk in 1897 for future farmers on a site of a water soak known to the Ngarkat people. The district was surveyed in 1906 after the rail line had been completed but the first town lots did not sell in the newly surveyed town of germanium until 1910. It was named after the wild geraniums of the district.
From its beginnings in 1910 Mallee stumps and roots were railed back to Adelaide from Geranium and elsewhere. Eudunda Farmers had a weighbridge installed at Geranium in 1911, the same year that they opened a General Store in the town. It was the 10th Eudunda Farmers Store in SA on the corner of Railway Terrace and Price Street. The first settlers included a mix of English and German background families. Apart from new disease resistant wheat varieties a lot of oaten hay was grown in the district. This was still the era when farmers had teams of six to twelve draft horses to pull the Mallee rollers and wheat ploughs and harvesters. Some areas were lucky enough to have tea tree suitable for the brush fences of Adelaide suburban houses! As the town emerged a school opened in 1912; Methodist Church services began in 1910 in the Institute; the timber framed Methodist Church opened in 1954; an Anglican Church was built south of the railway line in 1968. The Anglican Church is now the Post Office. A galvanised iron Institute for community social functions was quickly put up in 1909 with a new solid stone replacement Institute opening in May 1922. It was built in front of the old iron hall which was demolished in 1952. The stone Institute was demolished in 2006 but it used to stand opposite the current memorial cairn on Railway Terrace next to the original Eudunda farmers store. The Geranium Area School catering for high school students opened in 1965 with 247 pupils. Geranium only just survives as a town. The school was downgraded from an Area school to a primary school in 1990 and now it is closed despite two large classroom blocks and other facilities. It closed in 2022. Students can be bussed to Lameroo Area School. Some years ago when the general store was put on the market and no buyer could be found the town bought the store and operated it as a community store. This store was the second store built for Eudunda Farmers in 1963. It is now permanently closed. The 2021 census recorded 83 residents for the town. Although Geranium is a 20th century town it had a number of structures on the Register of the National Estate including the 1922 Institute and the railway station site and the town bore sunk in 1906 - but these buildings are now gone.