hart, South Australia

The Hundred of Hart (part of the cadastral system in South Australia) was proclaimed in 1864{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article159527564 |title=COUNTY OF STANLEY. |newspaper=Adelaide Observer |location=SA |date=26 November 1864 |accessdate=9 December 2015 |page=4 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} and named after Captain John Hart, a member of the colony's parliament and the Treasurer at the time (and later Premier).{{cite web|title=Placename Details: Hundred of Hart|url=http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/#|website=Property Location Browser|publisher=Government of South Australia|accessdate=8 December 2015|id=SA0029510|date=29 January 2009|archive-date=12 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161012010923/http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/|url-status=dead}}

The Hundred of Hart lies on the plains and western slope of the Yackamoorundie Range (known as the Middle Range at the time the Hundred was proclaimed). The eastern boundary of the Hundred is about {{convert|11+1/4|mi}} along the crest of the range, mostly above {{convert|400|m}} altitude, running roughly north–south. The southern boundary is part of the northern boundary of the Hundred of Blyth. The northern and western boundaries were arbitrary straight lines running true west and true south. The northern boundary is about {{convert|8+1/2|mi}} long.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article159527564 |title=COUNTY OF STANLEY. |newspaper=Adelaide Observer |location=SA |date=26 November 1864 |accessdate=10 December 2015 |page=4 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} The western boundary is now mostly followed by a road, which includes the main street of Brinkworth and is below {{convert|200|m}} altitude. The current Bounded Locality of Hart occupies almost the southern half of the Hundred.

There was a Government Town named Anama surveyed in 1865, which was not fully developed, and officially ceased to exist in 1924. It was named for a local property owned by George Charles Hawker, near what is now the boundary of Hart and Rochester, both in the Hundred of Hart.{{cite web |url=http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/# |title=Placename Details: Anama |id=SA0001271 |work=Property Location Browser |publisher=Government of South Australia |date=12 May 2011 |accessdate=9 December 2015 |archive-date=12 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161012010923/http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/ |url-status=dead }} The railway station may have been named for this Government Town on some maps, rather than for the Hundred district it was in.

Hart previously had a school which operated from 1895 to 1922.{{cite web |title=Placename Details: Hart School |url=http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/# |website=Property Location Browser |publisher=Government of South Australia |accessdate=8 December 2015 |id=SA0042971 |date=23 September 2008 |archive-date=12 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161012010923/http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/ |url-status=dead }} One of the notable former pupils was Sir Lyell McEwin, who had been born in the area.Judith Raftery, 'McEwin, Sir Alexander Lyell (1897–1988)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mcewin-sir-alexander-lyell-15104/text26305, published first in hardcopy 2012, accessed online 9 December 2015. The residents of the district had been petitioning the government to provide a school,{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article209046459 |title=DEPUTATIONS. |newspaper=The Express and Telegraph |location=Adelaide, SA |date=5 September 1895 |accessdate=9 December 2015 |page=2 Edition: SECOND EDITION |publisher=National Library of Australia}} however they eventually erected a stone building to serve as a community hall, for uses including a public school and religious worship.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article97308530 |title=Mews Letters. |newspaper=Northern Argus |location=Clare, SA |date=6 December 1895 |accessdate=9 December 2015 |page=2 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}

The Annie McEwin Snow Presbyterian Memorial Church opened in 1923.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36609229 |title=NEW CHURCH AT HART. |newspaper=The Advertiser |location=Adelaide, SA |date=19 October 1923 |accessdate=9 December 2015 |page=9 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} It was named in honour of Alexander Lyell McEwin Snr's daughter who had died after a brief illness, aged only 30.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article97634058 |title=Family Notices. |newspaper=Northern Argus |location=Clare, SA |date=9 September 1921 |accessdate=9 December 2015 |page=5 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} Construction was funded by him and her father-in-law. It stands adjacent to the Hart hall which had also been the school.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article97641871 |title=Opening of Memorial Church at Hart. |newspaper=Northern Argus |location=Clare, SA |date=2 November 1923 |accessdate=9 December 2015 |page=5 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} It closed in 1976 and is now a private residence.{{Cite web|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/82134796@N03/22514905311|title=Hart near Brinkworth. Interior of the Annie McEwin Snow Memorial Presbyterian Church. Opened in 1923. Closed 1976. Funded by Sir Lyell McEwin as a memorial to one of his daughters|date=22 October 2015}}

Hart Field Site is a {{convert|40|ha|adj=on}} agronomic field trial site where broadacre crops and cropping techniques are tested.{{cite web|title=Hart Field Site Group|url=http://www.hartfieldsite.org.au/|publisher=Hart Field Site |accessdate=9 December 2015}} The site is owned by the Hart Field-Site Group, established as a committee in 1982. The group bought this permanent site in 2000 with the financial support of Wakefield Regional Council, the group having previously used privately owned land near the current site.{{cite web |title=Hart - Over 25 Years of Excellence |url=http://www.hartfieldsite.org.au/pages/about-hart/history-of-hart.php |publisher=Hart Field Site |accessdate=9 December 2015}}

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Category:Mid North (South Australia)