Nackara, South Australia (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nackara is a farming town in South Australia, 30 minutes drive east of Peterborough on the Barrier Highway. It was originally proclaimed 'Tregu' but later changed to Nackara to match the 'Hundred of Nackara' to which it belonged. The Nackara 'township' was formed as a railway siding on the Peterborough (South Australia) to Broken Hill (New South Wales) train line which was completed in approximately 1888, mainly to transport the ore from the Broken Hill mines to the South Australian port(s). The town was planned to have several streets with suburban style yards, however this never eventuated. The Nackara township never reached more than a few railway cottages, a town store/post office (part of a house), a community hall ('The Nackara Institute'), a Catholic church, a Presbyterian Church, a school, the railway platform, cattle yards and cemetery. The planned roads didn't ever eventuate, with only dirt tracks through the very dry paddocks.