Solomon Cook
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Solomon Cook was an American engineer, blacksmith and shipwright. He constructed a substantial mill and one of Western Australia's first steam engines at York.
Solomon Cook's mill from a York panorama in about October 1877, taken by James Manning for the Paris Exhibition 1878.
South Australia
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South Australia is a state in the southern central part of Australia. With a total land area of 984,314 square kilometres, it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories by area, which
European settlers with Aboriginal Australians, 1850
Charles Sturt's expedition leaving Adelaide for central Australia, 1844
A satellite image of eastern South Australia. Note the dry lakes (white patches) in the north.
The Barossa Valley, northeast of Adelaide. South Australia's wine industry is the largest in Australia.