Alma Park, New South Wales
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Alma Park is a farming area closely associated with the Pleasant Hills
township situated about 17 kilometres to its north. It is a part of the Lockhart Shire Local Government Area. Whilst it is listed in some maps and other documents as a town, it in fact is nothing more than an area of settlement that in some cases is referred to jointly with Pleasant Hills - for example the Alma Park/Pleasant Hills Landcare Group
Other than private properties that farm both wheat
and similar grain crops and cattle
Alma Park is only locatable by an old Lutheran church that still exists on the Alma Park - Pleasant Hills Road.
German
(Lutheran) heritage when a large group of these settlers arrived in the 1880s. At the time Alma Park was referred to as Wallendool.
Greendale Post Office opened on 1 July 1875, was renamed Alma Park in 1905 and closed in 1910.
Pleasant Hills, New South Wales
Pleasant Hills is a small village about 26 kilometres west of Henty in the Riverina district of New South Wales, Australia. At the 2006 census, Pleasant Hills had a population of 393 people....
township situated about 17 kilometres to its north. It is a part of the Lockhart Shire Local Government Area. Whilst it is listed in some maps and other documents as a town, it in fact is nothing more than an area of settlement that in some cases is referred to jointly with Pleasant Hills - for example the Alma Park/Pleasant Hills Landcare Group
Other than private properties that farm both wheat
Wheat
Wheat is a cereal grain, originally from the Levant region of the Near East, but now cultivated worldwide. In 2007 world production of wheat was 607 million tons, making it the third most-produced cereal after maize and rice...
and similar grain crops and cattle
Cattle
Cattle are the most common type of large domesticated ungulates. They are a prominent modern member of the subfamily Bovinae, are the most widespread species of the genus Bos, and are most commonly classified collectively as Bos primigenius...
Alma Park is only locatable by an old Lutheran church that still exists on the Alma Park - Pleasant Hills Road.
German Settlement
Alma Park has close links with the Pleasant Hills community particularly with regard to its WendishWendish
Wendish may refer to:* the Sorbian languages used by the Slavs* the Wends, a Slav people of Northern Europe...
German
Germans
The Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....
(Lutheran) heritage when a large group of these settlers arrived in the 1880s. At the time Alma Park was referred to as Wallendool.
Greendale Post Office opened on 1 July 1875, was renamed Alma Park in 1905 and closed in 1910.