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((about|the town in South Australia|the nearby sheep station of the same name|Beltana Station))
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| name     = Beltana
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| caption  = Beltana population since 1880
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| established = 2 October 1873 (town)<br/> 29 May 1997 (locality)
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'''Beltana''' is a town ((convert|540|km|mi|0)) north of [[Adelaide]], [[South Australia]]. Beltana is known for continuing to exist long after the reasons for its existence had ceased. The town's history began in the 1870s with the advent of [[copper extraction|copper mining]] in the area, construction of the [[Australian Overland Telegraph Line]] and [[The Ghan]] railway and began to decline in 1941 with the beginning of coal mining at [[Leigh Creek, South Australia|Leigh Creek]]. The fortune of the town was sealed by the 1983 realignment of the main road away from the town.<ref name="signs">((cite web| url= http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/heritage/shas/sha_beltana.html| title= Interpreting Beltana's History, interpretative signs around the town| publisher= Heritage South Australia, Government of South Australia| year= 2006| accessdate= 10 September 2006| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20060919230728/http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/heritage/shas/sha_beltana.html| archivedate= 19 September 2006| url-status= dead))</ref> The town, adjacent cemetery and railway structures are now part of a designated State Heritage Area declared in 1987.<ref name="environment">((cite web| url= http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/heritage/shas/sha_beltana.html| title= Beltana State Heritage Area| publisher= Heritage South Australia, Government of South Australia| year= 2006| accessdate= 10 September 2006| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20060919230728/http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/heritage/shas/sha_beltana.html| archivedate= 19 September 2006| url-status= dead))</ref>

Beltana has important links with the [[Australian Overland Telegraph Line|overland telegraph]], [[Transcontinental railway#Australia|transcontinental railway]], mining, outback services, [[Australian Inland Mission]] and also has [[Afghan (Australia)|"Afghan"]] sites relating to its past as a [[camel]]-based transport centre.<ref name ="environment" />

The town has had [[horse racing]] since 1876, an annual [[Picnic horse racing|picnic races]] and [[Gymkhana (Equestrian)|gymkhana]] and a biennial pastoral [[Agricultural show|field day]]. These events are no longer held. The Beltana [[Filling station|roadhouse]], now ((convert|12|km|mi)) from Beltana on the main highway between [[Parachilna, South Australia|Parachilna]] and [[Leigh Creek, South Australia|Leigh Creek]], acted as the town's local store until it closed in 2016.

==Landscape==
Beltana lies 240&nbsp;m above sea level between the often dry Warrioota and Sliding Rock [[stream|creeks]] near Mount Deception.<ref name="smh" >((cite web | url = http://www.smh.com.au/news/South-Australia/Beltana/2005/02/17/1108500204151.html | title = Beltana, Superb semi-ghost town on the edge of the desert | work = The Sydney Morning Herald | date = 2005-02-17 | accessdate = 10 September 2006 ))</ref> Due to the flatness of the country, the town's proximity to the creeks and the area's usually unpredictable weather, heavy rainfall has often led to [[flood]]ing. Beltana has experienced six months with no rain (1960–61) and six months with over 300&nbsp;mm of rain (1975–76) and drought has caused the area to be unstocked for long periods (1903–09).<ref>Aird G 1984, p. 151</ref> [[Rain gauge|Rainfall]] has ranged from 57&nbsp;mm in 1902 to a record 408.6&nbsp;mm in 1974 with a long term average of 205&nbsp;mm.<ref>Aird G 1984, p. 155</ref> There are occasional winter frosts, hailstorms and one recorded snowfall (on [[Mount Hack]] and Mount Stuart in July 1971).<ref>Aird G 1984, p. 158</ref>

[[Atriplex|Saltbush]], bluebush and other [[acacias]] are native plants that, with the reduction in stocking over the last decades of the 20th century, are beginning to return to the town area. [[River red gum]]s line the creeks and there is a nearby [[yellow-footed rock-wallaby]] population.

==History==
===Original inhabitants===
The original inhabitants were the [[Kuyani]] and [[Adnyamathanha]] Aboriginal people who used the area as a camp due to the nearby springs. With the arrival of Europeans their traditional lifestyle was disrupted and many of them began working as stockmen on pastoral runs.<ref name ="signs" /> During the early years of European settlement they kept a camp near [[Beltana Station]] but later moved closer to the town at Warrioota Creek. As the town was gradually depopulated some Aboriginal people occupied the abandoned buildings so by the late 1960s they again formed the majority of the population.<ref>Aird G 1984, p. 12</ref>

===Naming===
Beltana takes its name from that of a nearby [[sheep station]], west of the current town, which provided a stopover point for travellers, missionaries, explorers, and miners.<ref>Aird G 1984, p. 9</ref> The name Beltana may have come from the [[Adnyamathanha language|Adnyamathanha]] word for ''running water'' or ''crossing of the waters'' or may be an adaptation of ''veldana'' for ''skin'' or ''cloak''.<ref>Aird G 1984, p. 7</ref> Linguists have suggested that its origin lies in the [[Kuyani language|Kuyani]] name for the location, ''Paltha-nha'', although records and interpretations vary. It is likely to be associated with the nearby Warioota Creek, possibly at a junction with another creek.<ref name="Khatun 2019 p. ">((cite book | last=Khatun | first=S. | title=Australianama: The South Asian Odyssey in Australia | publisher=University of Queensland Press | year=2019 | isbn=978-0-7022-6379-8 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GPO9DwAAQBAJ | access-date=27 June 2021 | pages=95–100))</ref> It may also have come from the village of Beltana, [[Tasmania]], or a word about bravery or courage from [[Ireland]], and finally one of the station managers believed it simply indicated the place where the station bell was rung.<ref name="smh" />

===The town===
Land in the area was first taken up for pastoral use by John Haines in 1854, taken over by [[Thomas Elder]] in 1862, and amalgamated in 1867 into the Beltana Pastoral Company of Elder and Samuel Stuckey. In 1866 Elder and Stuckey shipped in 109 [[Afghan cameleers in Australia|"Afghans" and their camels]], forming the basis for the area's mid-19th century transport.<ref name ="environment" />
The town's first building was Martin's Eating House, which was built in 1870 to take advantage of the discovery of copper at Sliding Rock, ((convert|20|km)) east of Beltana. The town's location had already been chosen as a [[Telegraphy|repeater]] station site for the [[Australian Overland Telegraph Line]] and in 1870 the telegraph contract of [[Charles Todd (astronomer)|Charles Todd]] brought more life to the area, with a telegraph station set up next to the only house on the site.((citation needed|date=June 2021))

In 1873 the town was [[Surveying|surveyed]] and laid out with an enthusiastic 115 allotments, room allowed for parklands and further expansion, with reserved allotments for a school, [[police station]] and hospital. On 2 October 1873, it was proclaimed under ''The Northern Townships Act 1872'' as a town, and is sometimes referred to as a government town.<ref name="LMV"/><ref name="SAGG-1873"/>

In 1877 significant water was struck at the Sliding Rock mine and the mine failed, with many moving to Beltana. The mine's remnants survive today as the [[Sliding Rock Mine Ruins]], which are listed on the [[South Australian Heritage Register]].<ref>((cite web | url=http://apps.planning.sa.gov.au/HeritageSearch/HeritageItem.aspx?p_heritageno=61 | title=Sliding Rock Mine | publisher=Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources | work=South Australian Heritage Register | accessdate=13 February 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160216023757/http://apps.planning.sa.gov.au/HeritageSearch/HeritageItem.aspx?p_heritageno=61 | archive-date=16 February 2016 | url-status=dead ))</ref> The failure of Sliding Rock coupled with the 1881 arrival of the railway brought an influx of families and within five years there was a brewery, store and school. Other copper mines in the area began working and the town became the railhead for copper ore, sheep and wool. In 1869 a ship, the ''Beltana'', was a new ship built for the [[Port Augusta, South Australia|Port Augusta]] to [[London]] run and operated until 1897.<ref>Aird G 1984, p. 11</ref>
<blockquote>Beltana’s best time was between 1875 and the 1920s. During these years mining activity was at its height. The town supported a brewery, two hotels, post and telegraph office, school, police station, doctor, court-house, church, [[baker]], [[butcher]], [[blacksmith]], hospital, [[railway station]], [[cricket]] team, race meetings, a [[saddle]] maker, [[carriage]] maker, mining exchange, several shops and, at times, as many as 500 people.<ref>Aird G 1984, p. 14</ref></blockquote>
Mechanisation, [[mine closure]], [[drought]] and the [[Great Depression]] led to the slow decline of Beltana as a service centre for the region from 1920 onwards. The railway realignment consequent to [[Rail gauge|gauge]] change in 1956 and road movement in 1983 completed the reversal of the town's fortune.<ref>Aird G 1984, p. 15</ref>

===Explorers===
The town was, for some time, the starting point of many central Australian expeditions and explorations including those by [[Ernest Giles]] in 1872, [[Peter Warburton]] in 1873, Ross in 1874, Lewis in 1874–75, and [[Lawrence Wells]] in 1883.<ref name="smh" />

===Beltana today===
With the loss of the railway, main road, mining, telegraph and the collapse of the nearby Leigh Creek coal mine, all of the original reasons for the town to exist have vanished. The population reached 9 in 1984 and today the town survives as a historic tourist site and living ghost town.<ref name="smh"/> The town does not have any [[Water pipe|piped water]] as the 1940s water pipe from Leigh Creek to Sliding Rock bypassed Beltana. Water is supplied from various [[Water well|well]]s and the old railway dam with Puttapa [[Spring (hydrosphere)|Springs]], a permanent water source, ((convert|8|km|mi|0)) from the town.<ref>Aird G 1984, p. 162</ref>

Most surviving buildings are now in private hands and not open to the public. There is an interpretive trail with signs detailing the history of many of the buildings in the town. Beltana has a campground run by the community that can be booked on Hipcamps.<ref name="environment" />

===Locality===
In 1997, boundaries for a locality with the name of Beltana were established under the ''Geographical Names Act 1991'' to "incorporate ''suburban areas to'' and ''adjacent areas to'' Beltana".  These boundaries included the Government Town of Beltana.<ref name="LMV"/><ref name="SAGG-1997"/>

==Town buildings==
[[File:Windmill at Beltana South Australia(GN05787).jpg|thumb|Windmill at Beltana, ca. 1935]]

===Smith of Dunesk Mission===
((more citations needed|section|date=July 2019))
The Smith of Dunesk Mission, of the [[Presbyterian Church of South Australia]], was founded in 1894 funded by a gift by Scotswoman Henrietta Smith (1782–1871) of [[Lasswade]], near [[Edinburgh]], made with the benefit of the Aboriginal people of South Australia particularly in view. Social reformer [[Phyllis Duguid]] wrote a pamphlet called ''A brief account of the Smith of Dunesk Bequest'' about the bequest in 1937, comprising property in South Australia,<ref name=letter>((cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article43756418 |last=Duguid|first=Charles|title=Smith of Dunesk Bequest |newspaper=[[The Advertiser (Adelaide)|The Advertiser]]|location=Adelaide |volume=90 |issue=27882  |date=17 February 1948 |accessdate=14 July 2019 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia|others=(Letter to the editor, confirming that the bequest was made for the benefit of Aborigines in South Australia.)))</ref><ref>((Citation | last=Duguid|first=Phyllis E. (Phyllis Evelyn) | title=A brief account of the Smith of Dunesk Bequest | date=1937 | publisher=P.E Duguid | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/23397221 | accessdate=14 July 2019 ))</ref><ref>((cite web|url=http://www.beltana.org.au/buildings/church|website=Beltana: Flinders historic town|title=Smith of Dunesk Mission|access-date=14 July 2019))</ref> [[Charles Duguid]] later wrote a letter to ''[[The Advertiser (Adelaide)|The Advertiser]]'' in 1948 which gives some details of the bequest, including that attempts had been made to divert the money from Aboriginals, and that three-quarters of the proceeds were to be used for the work of the Presbyterian Church among the aborigines at Ernabella. He wrote that "Mrs. Smith made it clear in 1838, 1857 and 1871 that while aborigines remained in South Australia, her bequest was for their uplift and development.<ref name=letter/>

The first [[Presbyterian]] [[manse]] was purchased in 1898, having been rented by Rev Robert Mitchell for four years before that, and served as the manse subsequent missioners including for Reverend [[John Flynn (minister)|John Flynn]], later of the [[Australian Inland Mission]] and the [[Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia|Flying Doctor Service]], in 1911. It became the Beltana [[Australian Inland Mission]] [[nursing home]] in 1919. The nursing home continued until hospital facilities became available in the mid-1950s at Leigh Creek.<ref name="signs" /> The second Presbyterian manse, on Lot 93 at the corner of Second and Fourth Street, was purchased in 1912 and held by the church until 1953.((citation needed|date=July 2019))

Missioners were to be ordained ministers, but several who served were not. The Smith of Dunesk missioners until the Mission was absorbed into the AIM as the Southern Patrol in 1933 were:((citation needed|date=July 2019))
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*Rev Robert Mitchell [1851–1929] (October 1894 – November 1898)
*Rev James B. Smellie [1854–1911] (November 1898 – September 1901)
*D.Nicol (October 1901 – May 1902, temporary)
*Rev John Bentley Reid [1842–1910] (June 1902 – May 1905)
*Rev F.W.Rolland, MA [1878–1965] (August 1905 – September 1908)
*Rev Ernest E. Baldwin [1875–1938] (September 1908 – November 1910)
*Rev John Flynn [1880–1951] (January 1911 – May 1912)
*A.H. Bryson (13 July – 18 September 1912, temporary)
*R. Bruce Plowman [1886–1966] (November 1912 – December 1913)
*Rev J.A.Pawson [1885–1961] (February 1914 – December 1915)
*Rev H.E.Carey [1881–1955] (February 1916 – December 1918)
*Rev John Armour [1889–1954] (January 1919 – January 1920)
*D.E. Sprigg (June 1920 – November 1920)
*Rev M.S.Campbell [1890–1968] (December 1920 – December 1921)
*Rev William Gray [1854–1937] (July 1923 – February 1928)
*Rev Robert Mitchell [1851–1929] (April 1928 – December 1928)
*Robert Walter Casboult [1863–1932] (April 1929 – January 1932)
|}
Rev Fred H. Patterson (1888–1944) supplied part-time in 1932 while minister of Port Augusta. From the beginning of 1933 the Mission was absorbed into the Southern Patrol of the Australian Inland Mission with Patterson padre 1933–40.

The Beltana Mission Hall, which dates from 1878 or 1879 was described as Doig's Assembly Room in the Northern Argus of 25 April 1879, which suggests that it was not a carriage showroom adjunct to Doig's adjoining blacksmith premises as frequently stated, but was built for community purposes. It was built on the corner of Lot 18 which had been purchased by John James Doig in 1877. There were double doors towards the rear of the north-east wall of the main room and a rear room with chimney and separate access. There was a quadrille dance there in April 1879, the Local Court hired it for its sittings and Mrs Anna Doig conducted a Sunday School in it for many years. Doig offered the building and the corner piece of his land to the Church in 1902 for £60 and it was duly purchased. The first service was held on 8 March 1903 led by Rev J.B.Smellie who renovated it to suit. An extra room accessed through the former double doors was added when the building was thoroughly renovated and the exterior rendered in 1918 during the term of Rev H.E. Carey. The extension was removed in 1955 when AIM Patrol Padre 1949-57 Vic Murrell lived in Beltana in the original manse. The building has been kept in fair condition and with much local and other support was put in good order for the commemoration of the founding of the [[Australian Inland Mission]] held there 6/7 October 2012.((citation needed|date=July 2019))

===Police station===
Due to concerns over the behaviour of workers on the railway line a [[horse riding|mounted]] policeman was appointed in 1879 to manage the land from [[Parachilna, South Australia|Parachilna]] to Kopperamanna. In 1881 a permanent police building was finished and a police [[sergeant]] with two mounted [[constable]]s were housed. Cyril Allen, Beltana's last official policeman, closed the office in 1958 with policing now covered from Leigh Creek.<ref name="signs" />

===School===
With the closure of the Sliding Rock mine, its school (at the mining township of Cadnia) was dismantled and relocated to Beltana in 1878. A new single room stone building was completed in October 1893 and the original galvanised iron school was converted into a teachers residence.<ref>Aird G 1984, p. 112</ref> In 1925 the original school was dismantled and materials used to add a shelter shed and woodwork room to the new building. It was closed in 1967 with students now bussed daily to Leigh Creek area school 40kms away.<ref>Aird G 1984, p. 119</ref> The school was always a single-teacher school with a peak enrolment of 52 students in 1904.<ref name="signs" />

===The Overland Telegraph station (1872-1956)===
A temporary repeater station on the [[Australian Overland Telegraph Line|Overland Telegraph Line]] was opened in 1872 at Beltana, although the line was established there in 1871, with the first message sent in July 1871.<ref>((Cite news |date=1871-07-14 |title=GENERAL NEWS. |work=Express and Telegraph |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article207698009 |access-date=2023-11-20))</ref> A permanent station was built there in 1875 -- the building is still standing today, and is a private residence. Operated by a staff of up to six it relayed morse telegraph messages on the Port [[Darwin, Northern Territory|Darwin]]-[[Adelaide]] telegraph lines. The station received its first phone message in 1878, was moved in 1940 to a telephone switchboard at the local shop, and closed by 1956 as an [[Telephone exchange|automatic exchange]] had been installed.<ref name="signs" />

===Railway station===
On 19 January 1878 Sir [[William Jervois]] symbolically turned the first sod on the new northern railway (called [[The Ghan]]) at Port Augusta. The line reached [[Hawker, South Australia|Hawker]] in June 1880, Beltana on 2 July 1881, [[Marree, South Australia|Marree]] on 6 January 1884, [[Oodnadatta, South Australia|Oodnadatta]] on 7 January 1891 and [[Alice Springs, Northern Territory|Alice Springs]] on 2 August 1929. In 1956 the [[narrow gauge railway|narrow gauge]] line through Beltana was replaced by a [[standard gauge]] line that bypassed the town and the line is now closed.<ref name="signs" />

==Note for visitors==
*Although it appears that the town is uninhabited and that visitors can freely walk into any building they like, the buildings are privately owned and some are inhabited, so many inhabited houses have "Keep Out" signs posted on them.<ref name="smh" />

==Notes==
((notelist))

==Citations==
((reflist))

==References==
((refbegin))
* ((cite book |last= Aird|first= Graham |author2=Klaassen, Nic|title= ''Beltana, The Town That Will Not Die'' |year= 1984|publisher= Graham Aird and Nic Klaassen|location= Beltana, South Australia|isbn= 0-9591081-0-6))
*Rowland S. Ward, ''The Smith of Dunesk Mission: Forerunner of the Australian Inland Mission'' (New Melbourne Press, 2012) ((ISBN|978-0-9806757-3-3))
((refend))

==External links==
((Wikivoyage))
*[http://www.beltana.org.au Beltana Historic Town]
*[http://www.southaustralianhistory.com.au/beltana.htm Flinders Ranges Research, Beltana]
*[http://www.smh.com.au/news/South-Australia/Beltana/2005/02/17/1108500204151.html SMH article on Beltana]
*[http://www.connectingthecontinent.com/ctcwebsite/beltana/beltana.htm Connecting the Continent, Celebrating Beltana]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060825202125/http://www.deh.sa.gov.au/heritage/shas/sha_beltana.html State Heritage Areas of South Australia – Beltana State Heritage Area]

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