Penola, South Australia

Penola is a town in the southeast of the Australian state of South Australia. The village is located about 350 km south-east of Adelaide on the border of the State of Victoria and has about 1,300 inhabitants. Nearby is the famous Coonawarra wine region.

Known personalities related to Penola include Catholic nun Mary MacKillop (1842-1909), which was still the only person from Australia and Oceania beatified and canonized, and polar explorer John Rymill ( 1905-1968 ).

History

The first European settlers in the area were the schottischstämmige Alexander Cameron and his wife Margaret (nee MacKillop ), who lived there from January 1844 and initially operated livestock. 1848 Cameron opened the Royal Oak Hotel, which in the aftermath of fortune in particular on the way to the gold fields in Victoria (see also Victorianischer Gold Rush) was used to house and helped him to a certain prosperity. In April 1850 Cameron leased 80 acres of land from the British Crown, and thus laid the foundation for the city Penoola (later Penola ). Over the next decade were shops, opened a church and a school.

John Riddoch led the wine in Penola. In 1890 he founded the Penola Fruit Growing Colony, which was renamed in 1897 in Coonawarra.