Gawler

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 * **__Gawler__** was planned by Colonel Light. The grand house Para para was built by a miller, Mr Duffield.
 * Martin foundry and dray construction began in 1848. They made Riddley strippers. They also produced mining machinery for Broken Hill, and for other states. Until the railway works begn at Islington, they made locomotives for railways.
 * The foundry suffered from the general financial slump in the 1890s. It closed 1914.

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