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The Whyalla Branch |
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The National Trust, SA is a non-government, not for profit,
membership-based organisation established in 1953 by Act of Parliament to promote
...the preservation and maintenance
for the benefit of the people of South Australia
of lands and buildings ... the preservation of furniture and pictures and chattles of national,
historic, artistic or scientific interest. Visit the National Trust SA
The WHYALLA Branch of the National Trust, SA is headquartered in the Mt. Laura Homestead Museum.
The main building is the Mt. Laura Homestead which was built in 1922 on the Mt. Laura sheep station.
The stone front of the building was added in 1933. As the city of Whyalla grew, the owners (the Nicolson family)
sold a portion of their land for development by The South Australian Housing Trust in 1967. Seven and a quarter acres around the
homestead was given to the
Whyalla City Commision with the provision that the homestead was retained for preservation of the past.
This is now the site of the museum which is now bounded by Ekblom St. and Ian St.
Branch Members and Volunteers operate the Museum.