Stone Hut South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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Coordinates | 33°06′11″S 138°17′53″E / 33.103°S 138.298°E | ||||||||||||||
Population | 30 ( SAL 2021) [1] | ||||||||||||||
Postcode(s) | 5480 | ||||||||||||||
Time zone | ACST ( UTC+9:30) | ||||||||||||||
• Summer ( DST) | ACST ( UTC+10:30) | ||||||||||||||
Location | |||||||||||||||
LGA(s) | Northern Areas Council | ||||||||||||||
Region | Yorke and Mid North [2] | ||||||||||||||
County | Victoria | ||||||||||||||
State electorate(s) | Stuart | ||||||||||||||
Federal division(s) | Grey | ||||||||||||||
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Stone Hut is a small town in the Mid-north of South Australia, situated on the Horrocks Highway (section of Main North Road) midway between Laura and Wirrabara.
Stone Hut was founded in 1874 as a subdivision of part section 3522, Hundreds of Booyoolie and Appila by Robert Hall of Jamestown and John Henderson of Glen Osmond. It was named for a four-room hut built in the early 1850s by stonemason Thomas Long, [3] which served as a shelter for shepherds and later as a mail coach station for Cobb and Co on the route between Clare and Port Augusta. [4]
The town received a boost when the Wheatley's "Old Bakery" moved thence from Wirrabara around 2005.