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The town of Snowtown is located in the mid north of South Australia. As a community that grew around a railway station, Snowtown was proclaimed in 1878, by the then State Governor Sir Thomas Jervois, as a tribute to his aide de camp, Thomas Snow. The railway line intersecting Snowtown is a less significant feature now that Australia's Highway 1 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_1_(Australia)) runs along the western edge of the town.
Described as a wheat-belt town, the local economy is based on cereal crops, wool and livestock. Snowtown has become better known for a criminal connection since 1999, when dismembered parts from eight or more bodies were discovered in a vault of a disused bank.
Population: approximately 520
References
Jones, A. 1978 Snowtown, the First Century, 1878-1978, Snowtown Centenary Committee, Australia
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