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Revision as of 11:25, 30 May 2016

Cross Roads
South Australia
Former Cross Roads Primitive Methodist Church
Population155 (SAL 2021)[1]
Postcode(s)5558 [2]
LGA(s)District Council of the Copper Coast
State electorate(s)Goyder [2]
Federal division(s)Grey [2]
Localities around Cross Roads:
North Moonta North Moonta
Paramatta		 Paramatta
North Moonta Cross Roads Paramatta
Moonta Moonta Yelta
FootnotesCoordinates[3]

Cross Roads is a locality at the northern end of the Yorke Peninsula and a satellite village to the town of Moonta. It is located in the District Council of the Copper Coast.[2]

The village originally grew around the intersection of the Wallaroo and Kadina roads.[4] The modern locality was established when the name and boundaries were selected in January 1999.[3] Cross Roads School operated from 1871 to 1878. It had 97 pupils in 1872.[3][5]

Cross Roads originally had three Methodist churches: a Primitive Methodist (1872), a Bible Christian (1873) and a Wesleyan (1875). The congregations combined in 1900, with the Bible Christian building continuing as the church; however, following a tornado in 1973 which destroyed the Bible Christian church and damaged the Primitive Methodist church, the congregation relocated to the former Wesleyan church. The Wesleyan church now continues as the Cross Roads Uniting Church, while the Primitive Methodist church has been sold.[6][7] The Wesleyan church had also previously been used as the Cross Roads branch of the Moonta Mines Institute for a period from 1902.[8]

The Wheal Hughes copper mine, which was a significant underground operation in the 1860s, was briefly worked as an open cut mine in the 1990s, and then later operated as a tourist attraction, is located on the Wallaroo-Moonta Road.[3]

An 1870s cottage at Cross Roads built by local miner Richard Whitford was listed on the Register of the National Estate.[9]

Cross Roads railway station was situated on the Balaklava-Moonta railway line. The Wallaroo-Moonta section of the line closed on 23 July 1984.[10]

References

  1. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Cross Roads (SA) (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022. Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ a b c d "Search result(s) for Cross Roads, 5558". Location SA Map Viewer. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
  3. ^ a b c d "Search result(s) for Cross Roads, 5558". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
  4. ^ "Moonta Mines State Heritage Area Fact Sheet" (PDF). Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
  5. ^ "Cross Roads Gossip". Yorke's Peninsula Advertiser And Miners' And Farmers' Journal. Vol. VI, , no. 599. South Australia. 2 July 1878. p. 4. Retrieved 19 May 2016 – via National Library of Australia.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
  6. ^ "Cross Roads Uniting Church". Moonta and District Progress Association. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
  7. ^ "Moonta Heritage Trail" (PDF). Australasian Mining History Association. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
  8. ^ "MOONTA". Chronicle. Vol. 45, , no. 2, 297. South Australia. 30 August 1902. p. 13. Retrieved 19 May 2016 – via National Library of Australia.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
  9. ^ "Miners Cottage, Moonta, SA, Australia". Register of the National Estate. Department of the Environment. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
  10. ^ Quinlan, Howard; Newland, John (2000). Australian Railway Routes 1854 - 2000. Redfern: Australian Railway Historical Society. p. 56-58. ISBN 0 909650 49 7.
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