This is an accepted version of this page Kapunda is a town on the Light River near the Barossa Valley in South Australia.

The southern entrance to the town has been dominated since 1988 by the 8-metre (26 ft) statue of Map Kernow ("the son of Cornwall"), a traditional Cornish miner.

Francis Dutton and Charles Bagot, who both ran sheep in the area, discovered copper ore outcrops in 1842.

His house, Eringa, was donated to the Education Department in 1921, and it was used as the administration building for the Kapunda High School[10] until it was gutted by fire on the night of 29 March 2022.

[11] Kapunda was home to several notable manufacturers of farm and mining machinery: Robert Cameron, Joseph Mellors, James Rowe and Adamson Brothers.

[14] Although it no longer exists, archaeological digs by Flinders University researchers have revealed the remains of the settlement as having had a population of around 500, and being in the form of a traditional Irish clachan.

[19] The southern entrance to the town has been dominated since 1988 by the 8-metre (26 ft) statue of Map Kernow ("the son of Cornwall"), a traditional Cornish miner.

[citation needed] Today, Kapunda is a producer of cereal crops, mainly wheat, barley and oats.

Value-added services carried out by local industry include stock feed milling and hay processing.

[citation needed] The town is close to the historic Anlaby Station with its 23-room homestead, houses, gardens and other buildings on the property, many of which are being restored by its current owners.

[25] The Sydney-based magazine Builder commented that "the long narrow window openings, infilled with cast cement grilles, the design of which has an Eastern flavour, are an interesting innovation".

Greenshields was a prominent citizen, who built up a drapery business and was a member of many local organisations, as well as the municipal council.

Eighty firefighters from the Metropolitan Fire Service battled the blaze, but were hampered by a limited water supply, and explosions around the building.

The North Kapunda Hotel was featured on television show Haunting: Australia, when cast member Allen Tiller, who was a local at the time, requested to producers, Flame Productions, that Kapunda, known as Australia's Most Haunted Town, should be a feature on the show.

[citation needed] Kapunda is in the state electoral district of Frome (since the 2020 redistribution)[28] and the federal Division of Barker.