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LOCATION
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Address West Terrace MINLATON
Locality
Accuracy H - high level confidence
Council Area Yorke Peninsula Council
Polygon Type B - Building footprint
DESCRIPTION
Details (Known As) Minlaton Showground Complex
Registered Name Minlaton Showground Complex (including Pavilion and Grandstand, Walls and Pedestrian Gate, Ticket Office and Outbuildings)
Significance Established in 1882, the Minlaton Showground Complex is associated with the agricultural expansion of South Australia through the process of closer settlement that occurred after the passage of the Strangways Act 1869. With expansion came the emergence of agricultural and horticultural societies which played a vital role in disseminating new ideas, farming techniques and machinery to the agricultural areas of South Australia through annual shows prior to the formation of the Department of Agriculture in 1902. Constructed by the Central Yorke's Peninsula Agricultural Society (CYPAS), the Minlaton Showground Complex is an outstanding example of its class, with several early show buildings and structures surviving at the site, including the main Pavilion and Grandstand, an Outbuilding, a Ticket Office, and a Stone Wall, all constructed out of locally quarried limestone, and a Livestock Shelter. The Pavilion with its incorporated Grandstand is the only example left of its kind in South Australia. The Minlaton Showground Complex assisted in the successful operation of the show and its society, and as a consequence, demonstrates important aspects of the agricultural development of South Australia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Subject Index Recreation and entertainment - Grandstand; Community facilities - Showground
Class State
STATUS
Status Code REG - Confirmed as a State Heritage Place in the SA Heritage Register
Status Date 20-NOV-1986
REFERENCE
LGA Yorke Peninsula
State Heritage ID 10186
Heritage Number 16052
SECTION 16 INFORMATION
Section 16
PLAN PARCEL & TITLE
As listed in the SA Heritage Register
Plan Parcel & Title Information CT 5727/38 H131000 S279

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