Type: | town |
Stone Hut | |
State: | sa |
Coordinates: | -33.103°N 138.298°W |
Postcode: | 5480 |
Timezone: | ACST |
Utc: | +9:30 |
Timezone-Dst: | ACST |
Utc-Dst: | +10:30 |
Dist1: | 7 |
Dir1: | north |
Location1: | Laura |
Dist2: | 7 |
Dir2: | south |
Location2: | Wirrabara |
Lga: | Northern Areas Council |
County: | Victoria |
Region: | Yorke and Mid North[1] |
Stategov: | Stuart |
Near-N: | Wirrabara |
Near-S: | Laura |
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,[2] 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.[3]
The town received a boost when the Wheatley's "Old Bakery" moved thence from Wirrabara around 2005.