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🚂 Henry Edward Fox Young
Lieutenant-Governor Henry Young examined Encounter Bay with harbourmaster Thomas Lipson while seeking a route between the Murray River and the sea. In 1850 he recommended a harbour at Port Elliot, facilities at Goolwa and an animal-powered railway between them. Port Adelaide interests objected, fearing diverted trade, and the proposal became a political dispute as well as an engineering undertaking. Work nevertheless proceeded, and the tramway was completed in 1854. Young’s association with Port Elliot rests on that direct involvement in its early transport infrastructure: an ambitious attempt to connect river shipping with ocean vessels across the intervening land.
