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Finniss Methodist Church built in 1909. It is now Uniting and replaced the original Methodist Church opened in 1869. In these early years Finniss was known as Queen's Own Town. It changed in 1940 when SA took all punctuation out of town names. The tiny settlement of Finniss was named after William Light’s Assistant Surveyor Boyle Finniss who went on to become the first Premier of SA. Nearby the Finniss River flows through the area towards Lake Alexandrina. The Mouth of the Finniss River Survey was a 4,000 acre Special Survey of 1839 paid for by a syndicate of men- Robert Cock, John Warren, W. Ferguson, William Malcolm, C. Hare, Henry Giles, and A. Birrell and others in the Adelaide Survey Company. It bought the first white settlers to the district but no township until the town was laid out in 1868. But the town did not start out as Finniss. It was called Queen’s Own Town by the Acting Governor of the day Lieutenant Colonel Francis Hamley (1868-69) who was a member of the Queen’s Own 50th Regiment! (Hamley also named Hamley Bridge in the mid North.) A school operated here from 1869 until 1970 in the Wesleyan Methodist Church which was erected in 1869. The railway station was the centre of town. In 1924 a large local Hall was erected. The station was on the line from Strathalbyn to Victor which opened in 1869 for horse trams and re-opened for steam trains in 1883. Queen’s Own Town was changed to Finniss in 1940 when the SA government removed punctuation from town names and changed many confusing town names. |
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