Pt Parham

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About Pt Parham

Photos from around Pt Parham, South Australia. Photo's from Pt Prime, Thompsons beach, Webb beach and surrounding areas.

Port Parham was the shipping port for Dublin and in the 1870s the residents and surrounding graingrowers petitioned for a jetty which would have enabled them to ship wheat out for most of the day instead of only three hours when the tide was high. They didn't get a jetty and continued shipping grain out via dray and ketch until the 'narrow gauge railway extension' was built from Salisbury to Long Plains in 1917 and the Long Plains, Mallala, Korunye and Two Wells railway stations became the collection points for the grain.

In 1909 a parliamentary party was invited by the Mallala Railway Committee to visit the area:

"Port Parham was reached at about 4.30 p.m. The tide was out, and consequently the visitors were able to appreciate to the fullest extent the shipping difficulties of that place. Farmers who are living within seven or eight miles cart their produce to the port and stack it on the foreshore. Then when a ketch arrives it has to be reloaded and carted out about a mile and a half to the vessel and transferred in a primitive manner from the drays. Notwithstanding these exceptional difficulties a considerable trade is done at the port, inwards and outwards. Several hundred tons of artificial manures are landed, and about 70,000 bags of wheat are shipped every season."