The quest in the quarry Sleeps Hill Adelaide, SA
efore the shepherd Samuel Sleep arrived with his wife and seven children around 1840, the area was known as Brownhill Creek. During his stay it became known as Sleeps Hill and later Angas Park. Sleep made a quick fortune in the Victorian Gold Fields but returned to the land, only to suffer financial ruin by the severe drought of the 1860s. His weight reached 120kg by the time he died in December 1866, aged just 45. Part of the railway viaduct through the Adelaide Hills near Belair was named after him. These are known as the two Sleeps Hill tunnels and these (and the concrete foundations of the adjoining viaducts)
