Tennant Creek Telegraph Station

Tennant Creek Telegraph Station
Adelaide-Darwin Telegraph Line

The Tennant Creek Telegraph Station is an important historical site about 10 miles (16 km) north of Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory of Australia.

History

Staff of the Tennant Creek Overland Telegraph Line.

The Warumungu Aboriginal people were the first occupants of the region in and around Tennant Creek.

The Tennant Creek Telegraph Station was built in 1872 as part of the Overland Telegraph Line. It was first a temporary bush timber building but by 1875 had been rebuilt with locally quarried stone.[1]

In 1925, a linesman discovered gold, with the discovery quickly leading to the establishment of a township to the south of the telegraph station. In 1935 a post and wireless office became operational in the town of Tennant Creek itself,[2] so that the telegraph station was closed. It then supplied meat to the new town and water from its bore until 1966.[3]

Recent history

Significant restoration work was undertaken on the remaining station buildings in 2012.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Tennant Creek Telegraph Station Historical Reserve" (PDF). Northern Territory Government. Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
  2. ↑ "TENNANT CREEK". Northern Standard (48). Northern Territory, Australia. 21 June 1935. p. 9. Retrieved 6 October 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ↑ Miles, Margot (1988). The Old Tennant.
  4. ↑ Brain, Caddie (17 May 2012). "Rebuilding our history stone by stone". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. ABC Rural. Retrieved 6 October 2016.

Coordinates: 19°33′20″S 134°13′43″E / 19.5555°S 134.2286°E / -19.5555; 134.2286

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