Photo 1 - Hand stamped steel sign located at Frew Pond. Sign reads:
AT THIS POINT
THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE OVERLAND
TELEGRAPH ROUTE FROM ADELAIDE TO
DARWIN WAS COMPLETED BY JOINING
TOGETHER THE NORTH AND SOUTH
SECTION AT 3.15PM ON 22 AUG 1872
Photo 2 - In 1972 to celebrate the centenary of the joining of the Overland Telegraph Line, a temporary post office was set up for three days at Frews Ponds, adjacent to the Sir Charles Todd Monument on the Stuart Highway (1.7km from the Telegraph Reserve). Frew Ponds is located 5 kms south of Dunmarra and was where the North and South construction camps met and the line was finally joined.
Picture from left: Gavin Carpenter (who supplied the photo) with his son, and men assumed to be from the Post Office in Darwin and Adelaide.
