Heritage & History
Copper, convicts & colonial stone
The best heritage & history in Burra
The Clare Valley wears its 19th-century history in its stone: Jesuit cellars at Sevenhill, the grand Georgian rooms of Martindale Hall, and the copper-mining heritage of nearby Burra. Self-guided heritage trails string together churches, cottages, mine sites and museums across the district.
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Bon Accord Mine Museum
$A Burra museum telling the story of the town's water and mining history on a former mine site.
Burra Heritage Passport
A self-guided trail unlocking eight historic copper-mining sites across Burra, including the mine, gaol and creek dugouts.
Burra Miners Dugouts
The eroded creekbank hollows where up to 1,800 Cornish miners and their families once lived in the 1850s, dug into the soft clay.
Burra Monster Mine
The open-cut Burra Burra copper mine that saved colonial SA — an open-air museum of engine houses, chimneys and powder magazine.
Market Square Museum
$A perfectly preserved 1880s general store and home in Burra, frozen in time and crammed with the goods of everyday colonial life.
Paxton Square Cottages
$$A row of restored 1850s miners' cottages in Burra, now heritage self-contained accommodation.
Redruth Gaol
$South Australia's first country gaol, a stark stone ruin on the Burra Heritage Passport trail and a film location for 'Breaker Morant'.