Located 4 km north of Alice Springs along Herbert Heritage Drive, off the Stuart Highway, the reserve is accessible to vehicles and coaches. Alice Springs Telegraph Station Historical Reserve, There is a small cafe and kiosk with food, cold drinks and souvenirs. The reserve includes a shaded lawns area with picnic and free electric barbeque facilities.
The Post and Telegraph Office continue to operate, but only on occasions of special historical significance. Operating for 60 years, and then serving as a school for Aboriginal children, visitors today can view many of the restored stone buildings, including internal furnishing from the period 1895-1905. The completion of the line herald a new era for fast direct communication between Britain and her then independent Australian colonies. The Telegraph Station was one of twelve repeater stations constructed along the ‘Overland Telegraph Line’ in the early 1870s to relay messages between Darwin and Adelaide and is the best preserved station along the ‘Overland Telegraph Line’. From the Alice Springs Telegraph Station Historical Reserve information signage. This building was converted to a schoolroom when the telegraph station became an Aboriginal children’s home in 1932.
At the same time, the batteries were relocated from the Barracks to this building. The men later moved into the police house when it was vacated in 1886. Here visitors can learn some history, enjoy the l green lawns and facilities, as well as some of the walking tracks.īattery Room – Alice Springs Telegraph Station Historical Reserveīattery Room – this building was built about 1880 as sleeping quarters for the linesmen. The reserve is a popular spot for locals and tourists. Alice Springs Telegraph Station, NT © CK Leel
With its renaming and gender change, ‘ The Alice‘… as it is affectionately known by many locals, is now the modern town in the middle of Australia that you see today. The current Alice Springs began its history as a town named Stuart, a telegraph station on the Adelaide to Darwin line, what was once the end of the Ghan railway line. Named after Alice Todd (wife of Superintendent of Post and Telegraph Sir Charles Todd), the town was founded as a staging point for the overland telegraph line in 1870. The original Alice Springs was a waterhole located some 3 km north of the present town. Located on the northern edge of town, the Alice Springs Telegraph Station Historical Reserve marks the original site of the first European settlement in the region and originally included the area now covered by the township of Alice Springs. Alice Springs Telegraph Station Historical Reserve Spring with no water Welcome to Atherreyurre
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