Sedan, South Australia

Sedan South Australia
Pilgrim of Zion Lutheran church. A war memorial is in the foreground
Sedan
Coordinates	34°35′0″S 139°18′0″E
Population	212 (SAL 2021)[1]
Postcode(s)	5353
LGA(s)	Mid Murray Council
State electorate(s)	Chaffey
Federal division(s)	Barker
Website	Sedan
Localities around Sedan: Truro, Towitta Sandleton Blanchetown Keyneton Sedan Fisher, Swan Reach Cambrai Black Hill
Footnotes	[2]

Sedan is a rural town in South Australia. It is located about 100 kilometres east of Adelaide and about 20 kilometres west of the Murray River. It is located on the dry eastern side of the Mount Lofty Ranges.

Overview

Sedan used to be the terminus of the South Australian Railways' Sedan line, which opened on 13 October 1919, and was curtailed to Cambrai in 1964.[3][4][5]

Sedan is at the junction of the Stott Highway which connects the Barossa Valley on the west to the River Murray and Riverland on the east, and Halfway House Road which provides a north–south heavy vehicle route between the Sturt Highway and Princes Highway on the plains to the east of the Mount Lofty Ranges.[6]

Surrounded by dry-stone walls built by early settlers, the historic town of Sedan is home to many 19th century buildings that are in excellent condition.

Old guest house building in Sedan

The Sedan Heritage Trail – available from the Sedan Hotel – is a good way to discover the town. Once a busy railway town, complete with steam flour mill and agricultural machinery factory, Sedan was settled in the 1850s by German settlers. The town was originally a private subdivision of Section 52, and named for the Battle of Sedan in the Franco-Prussian War.[7]

When the amalgamated District Council of Keyneton and Swan Reach was established in 1933, Sedan was chosen to be the seat of council. Later the council name was changed to reflect the seat, becoming the District Council of Sedan.

Pine Hut Creek

Pine Hut Creek and Pine Hut Plain are historic names for areas to the south of the township in the locality of Sedan. The creek flows from the eastern side of the Mount Lofty Ranges to the Murray River. There was once a Congregational Church school which closed in 1880[8] and government school from 1900 to 1910.[9] There is a small cemetery no longer used.[10]

References

1. Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Sedan (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022. 
2. "Property Location Browser". Government of South Australia. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
3. Callaghan W.H. (March 1996). "The Sedan Line". Australian Railway Historical Society Bulletin: 76–87.
4. "GENERAL NEWS". The Advertiser. Vol. LXII, no. 19, 031. South Australia. 11 October 1919. p. 9. Retrieved 12 October 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
5. Sedan South Australian History
6. South Eastern Freeway Emergency Detour Plan Glen Osmond to Callington Interchange (Northern Route) (PDF) (Map). Government of South Australia Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure. 5 October 2012. pp. 2, 7. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
7. "Placename Details: Sedan". Property Location Browser Report. Government of South Australia. 30 August 2006. SA0062021. Retrieved 12 October 2017.
8. "Pine Hut Creek Congregational Church School". State Library of South Australia. c. 1880. B 62299. Retrieved 12 October 2017.
9. "Teachers, School taught in = Pine Hut Creek". University of South Australia. Retrieved 12 October 2017.
10. "Pine Hut Creek". Oz Burials. Transcribed by Graham Barlow. Retrieved 12 October 2017.

External links

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