South Australia (Yorke Peninsula)

George Street, Moonta's main street is named after George Goyder, surveyor -general of South Australia 1861 to 1866. Copper mining was re-commenced at the Poona Mine sixty years after the close of the mines in the area.

Attractions

• BUTLER MEMORIAL Local hero Captain Harry Butler's World War I feats are commemorated in this memorial. The hangar style building contains the famous World War I Bristol fighter aeroplane, the '"Red Devil", flown in France and Australia by Butler. It is believed to be the only one of its kind left in the world. Static displays reveal Butler's exploits and provide a detailed history of the recently refurbished monoplane.

• JOLLY'S VINTAGE TRACTOR and ENGINE COLLECTION This museum contains a working display of restored antique tractors, stationary engines and steam engines. Other items such as tools, spark plugs, kero boxes and enamel signs are also featured. Open by appointment.
• NATIONAL TRUST MUSEUM This museum displays World War I flying ace Harry Butler's memorabilia and historic records. General interest items include domestic appliances, crockery, furniture, photographs and paintings.
• LOCAL and FAMILY HISTORY RESOURCE CENTRE In the Moonta Mines School House, the Resource Centre has a comprehensive collection of local and family history, resource documents including local and state newspapers on microfilm. There's also a large display of old radios and related artefacts.
• MINER'S COTTAGE & GARDEN The National Trust Miner's Cottage is a typical Cornish cottage, built around 1870 from wattle and daub, mud bricks, clay and limestone, and is furnished in period style. The garden has been recreated in the style of the original cottage garden and the stick fence is characteristic of the mining era.

• MOONTA MINIES METHODIST CHURCH The Moonta Mines Chapel was built in 1865 and seats 1250 . It is noted for its cedar fittings and pipe organ with more than 600 pipes. Money from the State Heritage Fund has been used to restore the interior.

• MOONTA MINES MUSEUM This important museum is in the old school building. Built in 1878, the school enrolled more than 1,000 pupils each year at the peak of the mining era in the 1880s. Its many rooms display mine artefacts and relics from the district's many Cornish homes. Displays include photographs, lamps, clocks, needle and lacework, kitchen and laundry utensils, household items and furniture. Special displays are a mining room, school room, regalia of lodges and friendly societies and a large exhibit of local sports and recreation.

• MOONTA MINES RAILWAY This attraction takes visitors around the Wheal Moonta Mining site in a restored light gauge locomotive with carriages and ore trucks. The train passes the old mine reservoir, shafts, and ore sorting floors through a tunnel under Ryan's skimp heap and past large slime areas. At the wash and dry house signs have been erected showing how the area was worked and copper recovered.