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LOT 122 Frenchmans Terrace
Penneshaw SA 5222
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A 2.4 metre deep fresh water
well was dug on the site in 1880. and was lines with whale bones and old ship timber, and equipped with a whip to raise water to a trough made from a burnt out gum log os whaling trypot. The
well was quite an upgrade from the previous harvesting of water by sinking casts into the
places where water oozed between the rocks.
In 1926 the Dudley Council relined the
well with timber and installed a windmill and a galvanised iron trough to water the local stock. Water was pumped to the local hotel and boarding house until the early 1960’s. Water was as important for their much valued livestock as it was for early settlers.