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Luke and Harriet Broadbent who arrived on the Buffalo
No 1 Gawler South Australia's Oldest Northern Centre; Gawler was once Heart of The Bush.
No 2 Gawler and Tanunda: Walled City of Barossa Ranges; Australia's National Song; Heart of the Wine Industry.
No 3 Kapunda Where They Found the Copper; 90-year-old Town Without a Main Approach
No 4 Morgan Historical side of Morgan; Old Nor' West Bend Station
No 5 Morgan and Eudunda Comedy in the Main Street; Town Which Grew Round a Main Store
No 6 Waikerie Equality Crashes and Waikerie is Born; Success Which Grew out of Failure
No 7 Blanchetown On the Murray; Quaint, Old-fashioned and Interesting
No 8 Nurioopta Looking Round Nuriootpa and Angaston; Coming of the German Settlers
No 9 Port Wakefield 80 Years Ago and Now; The Abduction of Ellen Turner
No 10 Kadina Founded by a Kangaroo Rat; Story of a Famous Copper Mine
No 11 Wallaroo Front Door of Yorke's Peninsula; Passing of a Great Industry
No 12 Moonta Unique Record of the Moonta Mine; Epic Race for a Great Fortune
No 13 Maitland Gem of the Peninsula Wheatbelt; How Despised Country Came into its Own
No 14 Minlaton Some Stories of Gum Flat; Forgotten Pioneer of Yorke's Peninsula
No 15 Yorketown Yesterday and Today; Tolmer and the Tasmanian Bushrangers
No 16 Edithburgh Where They Get The Salt; Little Known Facts About a Common Substance
No 17 Auburn In and Around Auburn; The Tragic Story of John Horrocks
No 18 Clare Garden of the State; "Paddy" Gleeson: Poo Bah of the Lower North
No 19 Brinkworth, Georgetown and the Way There; Winter Bog Trap for Unwary Motorists
No 20 Gladstone Centre of Many Stories; First Meatworks in Australia
No 21 Port Pirie Wonder Town on Spencer Gulf; Man's Triumph over Nature
No 22 Crystal Brook The Romance of Crystal Brook; Bunyips, Wild Dogs, Grog Shops, and Kangaroos
No 23 Port Augusta South Australia's Inland Sea; "Jumping Off" Point for the Never Never
No 24 Quorn In the Basin of the Flinders Ranges; The White Man's Struggle to Win the Country from the Black
No 25 Wilmington The Story of Wilmington; As it was in the Beginning
No 26 Melrose The Child of the Mountains; Story of Separation Creek
No 27 Wirrabara Where They Make Forests; Birth of the Bushfire Control Scheme
No 28 Laura A Centre of the Middle North; From Sheep Run to Thriving Town
No 29 Caltowie Great Wheat Plain; Black Brothers' Full Dress Parade
No 30 Jamestown The Story of Jamestown; From Sheep Station to Young City
No 31 Orroroo Far North Town of the Walloway Plain; The Chambers, Price Maurice and Others
No 32 Peterborough Big Junction Town of the North; Outstation Which Became a Young City
No 33 Terowie Once the Hub of the North; Gottlieb's Wells, Ulooloo Gold, And Other Things
No 34 Burra Strange Story of the Burra Nobs, and the Snobs, and the Roaring Days of the Forties
No 35 Riverton On the Banks of the River Gilbert; James Masters, Publican, Pastoralist And Pooh-Bah
No 36 Saddleworth Story of the Rainberd Murders; Memories of Matthew Moorhouse
No 37 Early Kangaroo Island; The Bad Boy of the Family
No 38 Kangaroo Island Early Days Dawn of Civilisation and Early Days
No 39 Kangaroo Island more tales Its Past, its Present, its Probable Future
No 40 Mount Barker In the South Australian Highlands; Mt. Barker's Picturesque and Important Centre
No 41 Mount Barker Some Scraps of Local History; Early Settlers, Early Coaches, and Pioneer Days
No 42 Strathalbyn Story of Strathalbyn Town of the Ten Bridges
No 43 Port Elliot Story of Port Elliot; Quick Wooing in the Early Days
No 44 Port Victor Story of Victor Harbour; Wife Sold for Round of Drinks
No 45 Goolwa The Story of Goolwa That Was; First Railway in Australia
No 46 Yankalilla Story of Yankalilla; Sellick's Hill: a Great Southern Barrier
No 47 Aldinga The Story of Aldinga; Wreck of the Star of Greece
No 48 Noarlunga Some Stories of Noarlunga; Onkaparinga was Called Field's River
No 49 Port Lincoln Part 1 Early Times in Port Lincoln; Discovery and Exploration
No 50 Port Lincoln Part 2 More Stories of Port Lincoln with Black Brother on the Warpath
No 51 Port Lincoln Part 3 Further Tales of Port Lincoln; Pioneer Struggles and Early Day Episodes
No 52 Port Lincoln Part 4 Last Pages of the Story of Port Lincoln; Odds and Ends About an Interesting Town
No 53 Belair Early Days at "The Top of the Ranges"
No 54 Coromandel Valley Ship's Company Runs Away to become Farmers
No 55 Clarendon When Work was Hard, Hours Long, and Pay a Pittance
No 56 Clarendon More About Early Clarendon; Saints, Sinners and the Common Stock
No 57 Meadows Story of Battunga called the Meadows; Rich Run Discovered by a Runaway Horse Thief
No 58 Meadows Story of the Meadows; Conducting Business by Poetry
No 59 Echunga The Story of Early Echunga; Gold in the Mountain, and Silver in the Mine
No 60 Echunga More About Early Echunga; The Story of Jacob Hagen
No 61 Aldgate, Stirling Crafers and Mount Lofty When the Tiers Were Held by the Tiersmen
No 62 Aldgate, Stirling, Scotts Creek and Elsewhere; The Interesting Story of the Tiers
No 63 Hahndorf Pioneer Stories of Ambleside; How the German Colonists came to Hahndorf
No 64 Balhannah Its Pathetic Story of James Turnbull Thomson
No 65 Woodside Early Days in and about Woodside; Strange Story of Gofton and Stagg
No 66 Tweedvale (Lobethal) Striking Story of a Progressive Hills Centre
No 67 Murray Bridge The Strange Tale of Murray Bridge; State's "White Elephant" of the 60's
No 68 Renmark A Town Carved From a Wilderness; Splendid Failure, Which Became a Huge Success