Cross Roads, South Australia

Cross Roads South Australia
Former Cross Roads Primitive Methodist Church
Cross Roads
Coordinates	34°03′44″S 137°36′38″E / 34.06209°S 137.610480°ECoordinates: 34°03′44″S 137°36′38″E / 34.06209°S 137.610480°E
Postcode(s)	5558 [1]
LGA(s)	District Council of the Copper Coast
State electorate(s)	Goyder [1]
Federal Division(s)	Grey [1]
Localities around Cross Roads: North Moonta North Moonta Paramatta Paramatta North Moonta Cross Roads Paramatta Moonta Moonta Yelta
Footnotes	Coordinates[2]

Cross Roads is a locality at the northern end of the Yorke Peninsula and a satellite village to the town of Moonta on its east. It is located in the District Council of the Copper Coast.^[1]

The village originally grew around the intersection of the Wallaroo and Kadina roads.^[3] The modern locality was established when the name and boundaries were selected in January 1999.^[2] Cross Roads School operated from 1871 to 1878. It had 97 pupils in 1872.^[2][4]

Cross Roads originally had three Methodist churches: a Primitive Methodist (1872), a Bible Christian (1873) and a Wesleyan (1875). The congregations combined in 1900, with the Bible Christian building continuing as the church; however, following a tornado in 1973 which destroyed the Bible Christian church and damaged the Primitive Methodist church, the congregation relocated to the former Wesleyan church. The Wesleyan church now continues as the Cross Roads Uniting Church, while the Primitive Methodist church has been sold.^[5][6] The Wesleyan church had also previously been used as the Cross Roads branch of the Moonta Mines Institute for a period from 1902.^[7]

The Wheal Hughes copper mine lies north of the Cross Roads township on the Wallaroo-Moonta Road. The mine was a significant underground operation in the 1860s, was briefly worked as an open cut mine in the 1990s, and later operated as a tourist attraction.^[2]

An 1870s cottage at Cross Roads built by local miner Richard Whitford, father of politician Stanley Whitford, was listed on the Register of the National Estate.^[8][9]

Cross Roads railway station was situated on the Balaklava-Moonta railway line. The Wallaroo-Moonta section of the line closed on 23 July 1984.^[10]

Land use within Cross Roads is divided between cultural heritage conservation and primary production. The southern half of the locality is part of a historic site known as the Moonta Mines State Heritage Area where any use and associated built development must meet statutory planning objectives ensuring the promotion, conservation, enhancement and maintenance of the state heritage area’s ‘historic character and cultural significance’. The eastern half of the locality is zoned for “agricultural production and the grazing of stock on relatively large holdings.”^[11][12]

References

1. "Search result(s) for Cross Roads, 5558". Location SA Map Viewer. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
2. "Search result(s) for Cross Roads, 5558". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
3. "Moonta Mines State Heritage Area Fact Sheet" (PDF). Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
4. "Cross Roads Gossip.". Yorke's Peninsula Advertiser And Miners' And Farmers' Journal. VI, (599). South Australia. 2 July 1878. p. 4. Retrieved 19 May 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
5. "Cross Roads Uniting Church". Moonta and District Progress Association. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
6. "Moonta Heritage Trail" (PDF). Australasian Mining History Association. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
7. "MOONTA.". Chronicle. 45, (2,297). South Australia. 30 August 1902. p. 13. Retrieved 19 May 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
8. "Miners Cottage, Moonta, SA, Australia". Register of the National Estate. Department of the Environment. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
9. "Whitford, Stanley R. (1878–1959)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 5 June 2016.
10. Quinlan, Howard; Newland, John (2000). Australian Railway Routes 1854 - 2000. Redfern: Australian Railway Historical Society. p. 56-58. ISBN 0 909650 49 7.
11. "Development Plan - Copper Coast Council Consolidated – 28 August 2014" (PDF). Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure. pp. 154–156, 187 and 388–393. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
12. "Moonta Mines State Heritage Area". South Australian Heritage Register. Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources. Retrieved 19 May 2016.