Although now a very small town with few facilities, Terowie remains a popular destination for photographers, historians, and rail buffs.

[5] By the 1860s, under leaseholder Alexander McCulloch, this run had expanded to a total area of 407 square miles, grazing 40,000 sheep.

[9] The busy Gottliebs Well head station, which also catered for travellers and stagecoaches, was just a few kilometres southwest of present Terowie township.

May 1879), who built a public house (highly profitable due to its proximity to the Inkermann mine[11]) on the main road, and sections were taken up by a blacksmith, a medical practitioner (a Dr. Carter[12]), a store and others.

This was in flagrant contravention of the terms of Mitchell's lease, but received an imprimatur when he facilitated building of a Wesleyan chapel.

[26] The railway line was closed and removed in the early 1990s; many relics remain and have been well preserved in the Museum and the Walking Trail.

[28] The pioneering Hollywood filmmaker J.P. McGowan was born in Terowie in 1880, his father's occupation being shown on the birth registration as engineman.

Thousands flocked there each weekend to experience the joy of a place about love and kindness without the "power and control" element usually associated with theocracy.

While changing trains in Terowie on 20 March 1942, United States General Douglas MacArthur was interviewed by two journalists from the Adelaide Advertiser newspaper regarding the Battle of the Philippines.

The supply of contaminated water to residents of Terowie goes against basic international human rights as outlined by the United Nations.