Stone Hut

Stone Hut is a small town in the Mid-north of South Australia, situated on the Horrocks Highway midway between Laura and Wirrabara.

History

Stone Hut was founded in 1874 as a subdivision of part section 3522, Hundreds of Booyoolie and Appila by Robert Hall of Jamestown and John Henderson of Glen Osmond.
It was named for a four-room hut built in the early 1850s by stonemason Thomas Long, which served as a shelter for shepherds and later as a mail coach station for Cobb and Co on the route between Clare and Port Augusta.
The town received a boost when the Wheatley's "Old Bakery" moved thence from Wirrabara around 2005.