In 1907, Ernst Gottlieb Traeger, his wife Bertha Augusta (née Dieckmann) and family were living at Brownlow, 15 miles east of Eudunda, when Ernst heard there was good potential for farming at the then-named Loxton’s Hut.
In response he visited, then paid $400 for 400ha of scrubland, 3km south of
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