holidays are over for the time being.

seems like there is some good jobs going at the Telegraph station for indigenous adults.



OVERVIEW
The Alice Springs Telegraph Station Historical Reserve marks the original site of the first European settlement in Alice Springs.

Established in 1872 to relay messages between Darwin and Adelaide, it is the best preserved of the 12 stations along the Overland Telegraph Line.

Construction of this Telegraph Station began in 1871. The township of Alice Springs takes its name from the waterhole a short distance to the east of the Station buildings.
This Telegraph Station operated for 60 years, and then served as a school for Aboriginal chil
The Alice Springs Telegraph Station is set in a National Park of 445 hectares, beside a natural spring in the Todd River, some 3 kilometres north of the town. The spring was named after Alice Todd, wife of the then Superintendent of Telegraphs for South Australia, Charles Todd, after whom the River is named.
In October 1870 the South Australian government allocated $250,000 for the construction of an Overland Telegraph Line from Port Augusta in South Australia, to Palmerston (now Darwin), along a route closely following that of explorer John McDouall Stuart, who successfully traversed the continent at his third attempt on July 24th 1862. Construction of the 3,000 kilometre line was in three sections. Private tenders were called for two sections of 800 km. each. Messrs. R.R. Knuckey, G.R. McMinn, H. Harvey, A.T. Woods and W. Mills, divided up the remaining 1400 km., to be built through the little known central area. A Scotsman, John Ross, assisted by Alfred Giles, was appointed to find a shorter route through this central mountainous region, however, it was surveyor Mills who discovered Heavitree Gap, at the southern entrance to Alice Springs, and who found and named Alice Springs, the site for the telegraph station.