Hundred of Davenport

The Hundred of Davenport is a hundred and a locality within County of Frome South Australia.

The Hundred of Davenport, was proclaimed on 23 February 1860 and a school of this name opened in 1896 and closed in 1951; Point Davenport, on Yorke Peninsula, was known to the Aborigines as wadjalawi - ‘middle water’.[1]

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