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Wells Street

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Name Wells
Type Designation Street
Place Id 22055
Place Type Road
Status Recorded
Date Registered
Locality / Suburb  
  Virginia
Local Government Area  
  Litchfield Council
History/Origin named after Charles Frederick Wells, a cadet Surveyor with the Goyder led Survey Expedition to establish Palmerston (now Darwin) in 1869 and who, in particular, was one of McLachlan's party at the townsite of Virginia at that time.

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