Horseshoe Bend Station
Horseshoe Bend Station is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station in the Alice Springs region of the Northern Territory.
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The property occupies and area of 5,936 square kilometres (2,292 sq mi) and includes approximately 80 kilometres (50 mi) frontage to the ephemeral Finke River with a string of semi-permanent waterholes.[1] Situated upstream of Crown Point Station, the homestead is on the Depot sandhills near the junction of the Finke and the Hugh Rivers.[2] The property includes a 2,000 square kilometres (772 sq mi) desert block that has never been developed. The station was originally a staging post for the Overland Telegraph Line and the North–South Road.[1] The former Central Australia Railway line passed approximately 30 kilometres (19 mi) from the homestead which once boasted a post office and a hotel.[2]
The area around the station was hit hard by drought in 1897, so much so that several of the surrounding properties were abandoned.[3] The second owners of the property were Sergeant and Elliot who operated a hotel from the homestead.[2] Sargent and Elliot acquired the property some time prior to 1908 when they were restocking the property with cattle.[4] Sargent died in 1912.[5]
Pastor Carl Strehlow, the founder of Hermannsburg, died and was buried at the station.[1] He arrived at Horseshoe Bend in 1922 after a 250 kilometres (155 mi) buggy ride from Hermannsburg while en route to reach medical treatment in Adelaide.[2]
By 2018, Horseshoe Bend Station was reported to be run by Viv Oldfield who also owns other properties nearby including Clifton Hills Station, Andado Station and Pandie Pandie Station.[6]
See also
References
- "Horseshoe Bend Station". Farmbuy. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
- Graeme Bucknall (1990). "Pioneers of the Old Track" (PDF). Northern Territory Library Service. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 March 2015.
- "News by Telegraph". The Northern Miner. Charters Towers, Queensland. 1 October 1897. p. 3. Retrieved 19 August 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
- "Infested Sheep". The Register. Adelaide. 19 October 1908. p. 7. Retrieved 19 August 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
- "Personal". The Advertiser. Adelaide. 30 March 1912. p. 19. Retrieved 19 August 2015 – via National Library of Australia.
- Condon, Jon (26 November 2018). "Property: Central Australian cattleman buys Clifton Hills". Beef Central. Nascon Media Pty Ltd. Retrieved 5 January 2018.