Balhannah
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Balhannah is a town in the Adelaide Hills about 30 km southeast of Adelaide, the capital of South Australia. It was established in 1839 as a farming community by James Turnbull Thomson, who built the first hotel. The town soon grew to incorporate two once adjoining towns: Gilleston (named for Osmond Gilles) and Blythetown, named for James Blythe, another Scottish settler.
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- Instance of
- town
- Country
- Australia
- Located in
- Adelaide Hills
- Population
- 1660
- Elevation
- 334
- Shares border with
- Carey Gully
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- BalhannahSA.JPG
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- male population
- 778
- female population
- 837
- postal code
- 5242
- associated electoral district
- Mayo
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- Balhannah, South Australia
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Balhannah is a town in the Adelaide Hills about 30 km southeast of Adelaide, the capital of South Australia. It was established in 1839 as a farming community by James Turnbull Thomson, who built the first hotel. The town soon grew to incorporate two once adjoining towns: Gilleston (named for Osmond Gilles) and Blythetown, named for James Blythe, another Scottish settler.
It is on the main interstate railway between Adelaide and Melbourne. In the past it was the junction for a branch line that ran up the Onkaparinga Valley and beyond to Birdwood and Mount Pleasant.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Balhannah” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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