Old Telegraph Station of the Overland Telegraph Line, which linked Adelaide to Darwin and Great Britain.

Old Telegraph Station - Alice Springs visitor guide showing a virtual tour of 'Old Telegraph Station' linked to an interactive map with local and travel information. 360° panoramas from Northern Territory.

In 1861-62, John McDouall Stuart led an expedition through Central Australia, to the west of what later became Alice Springs, thereby establishing a route from the south of the continent to the north. A settlement came into existence as a result of the construction of a repeater station on the Overland Telegraph Line, which linked Adelaide to Darwin and Great Britain. The OTL was completed in 1872. It traced Stuart's route and opened up the interior for permanent settlement.

The telegraph station was sited near what was thought to be a permanent waterhole in the normally dry Todd River and was optimistically named Alice Springs after the wife of the former Postmaster General of South Australia, Sir Charles Todd.