Ghostly Encounters at Geranium Plains Cemetery @MAMysteryTours

Geranium Plains.

This district just north of Robertstown on the Murray Flats was named after the native geranium (Geranium solanderi) which grew in abundance here in damp spots along watercourses such as Spring Hut Creek etc. The district was settled around 1885 by German background farmers. The first Lutheran congregation was formed here in 1900 and the St Paul’s Lutheran church opened that same year. It closed in 1922. In the same year a second Lutheran church opened just down the road a little way called St Stephen’s. Once this Lutheran congregation was formed a small state school began operations in 1901 in the rented church building. Although it was a state school it closed when all Lutheran schools in SA were closed in 1917 during World War One. It soon reopened and continued as a state school until final closure in 1947. The cemetery beside St Stephen’s church, which is still in use, has burials dating from around the time church was erected (1900) and the most common names are Schmidt and Semmler. The earliest burial here seems to be in 1903. Note that after World War One some headstones are written in English rather than German. Like many small German settlements Geranium Plans actually had two Lutheran churches but St Pauls’ amalgamated with St Stephen’s in 1922 and the St Paul’s church was demolished in 1941. A mound of stones and debris marks the spot where St Paul’s once stood. Spring Hut Creek which flows down through Geranium Plains flows down form the southern end of the Hallelujah Hills.

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