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was officially proclaimed in 1875 however no town was surveyed at this time. A town site in the hundred was surveyed by the colonial government in 1878, but the early settlers established the town elsewhere. The town's location at the centre of the
Hundred of Booleroo led to the name Booleroo
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of the 1870s saw many pastoral leases resumed by the government in order to subdivide the land for closer farming settlement, the
Booleroo run being among them. The pastoralists were to be replaced by grain farming agriculturalists.
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also plays a role within the community, with several local students being educated in this way during recent years.
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800:. Booleroo Centre Progress Association. Archived from
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The Booleroo Magnet and Wirrabara and Melrose Advocate
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716:"Search Results for Booleroo Centre, South Australia"
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878:. Booleroo Centre District School. Archived from
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