The Best Heritage Sites on the Limestone Coast
Saints, ports and pioneers across the region
The Limestone Coast was settled early and hard, by pastoralists, port-builders, miners and missionaries. Its towns are dense with history. These are the heritage sites that best repay a visit.
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PenolaMary MacKillop Penola Centre
Where Australia's first saint opened her first school.
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PenolaPetticoat Lane Heritage Walk
Penola's oldest street, lined with restored pioneer cottages.
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Mount Gambier
The Old Mount Gambier Gaol
A colonial bluestone gaol you can tour or sleep in.
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Port MacDonnellDingley Dell Conservation Park
The cottage home of poet Adam Lindsay Gordon.
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Mount GambierThe Riddoch Arts & Cultural Centre
Mount Gambier's grand heritage arts hub.
Walk these sites in sequence and you trace the whole arc of the region: pioneer settlement, the wool ports, the goldfields migration and the birth of a wine country.
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Image credits
- Penola SA town centre.jpg by Alpha from Melbourne, Australia , CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons