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History
Mannahill is a small pastoral and travellers service centre on the Barrier Highway and Indian-Pacific railway line about 340 km north-east of Adelaide.
The township was originally surveyed in the mid-1880s as a water-supply and maintenance point on the Peterborough to Cockburn railway line completed in 1887. There had been settlement before that time with Mannahill being on a former stock route from the Barrier Ranges in New South Wales to the then rail head at Terowie. It also supported early gold mining activity at both Mannahill itself and at Wadnaminga to the south.
Special attractions
The clubrooms and facilities at the racecourse adjacent to the township are well kept and are often used for business and group meeting purposes by pastoralists of the north east.
The railway building at Mannahill is a fine example of SA country railway architecture and the windlass-operated steel crane on the station platform there has been preserved as the only one still standing on that line.
Tourist services
There is a hotel and a police presence at Mannahill – but no seven-day fuel service.
