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Closer Settlement
Settlers believed that using land intensively maximised its value and civilised its occupants, and that holdings should be small to…
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CML Building
On the prominent corner of King William Street and Hindley Street, the Colonial Mutual Life (CML) Building is one of Adelaide’s…
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Coopers Brewery
Coopers Brewery has survived where many others have failed; it is now the only Australian-owned major brewing company.
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Cornish
South Australian mineral discoveries of the 1840s (especially at Kapunda and Burra in the Mid North) and extension of the…
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David Fowler
David Fowler was representative of a generation of nineteenth-century South Australian business leaders who helped to develop the economic and…
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Distance
Geographical position and distance have strongly shaped the European history of South Australia.
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Dr Charles George Everard
Charles Everard, accompanied by his wife Catherine and their four children, set sail from England on the Africaine on 28…
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Edmund Wright House
Edmund Wright House was built in 1878 as the headquarters of the Bank of South Australia.
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Elder Family
Elder Family of Scots merchants and ship owners saw the infant South Australia as an opportunity to expand their business…
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Electricity
Although amateur scientists had tinkered with it, electricity was not put to public use in South Australia until the arrival…
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Epworth Building
The building is a noticeable reminder of the influence of the Methodist Church on South Australia’s early colonial history.
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Essington Lewis, CH
An outstanding work ethic drove Essington Lewis to devote his whole life to developing industry in Australia, in particular the…
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Exhibitions
Exhibitions have been major occasions in the lives of many South Australians.
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FH Faulding & Co.
From a humble origin to major international status within the pharmaceutical industry
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Fire Cracker Box
Packaging and remnats from firecrackers stocked at Gordon Sym Choon’s Union Street shop.
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Fishing
Especially in coastal and riverine areas, fishing has always played an important role in the cultural, material and social lives…
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Fleurieu Peninsula
From prehistoric times through the Aboriginal Dreaming to a modern region popular for settlement, farming, tourism and recreation.
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Flinders Street
From ‘City of Churches’ to the ‘City of Cars’, Flinders Street reflects changes in Adelaide
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Francis Hardy Faulding
Francis Hardy Faulding, the founder of the pharmaceutical manufacturing company, F.H. Faulding & Co., was born in Swinefleet, Yorkshire, England.…
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George Elton Mayo
George Elton Mayo was born in Adelaide, South Australia, on 26th December 1880, the son of engineer George Gibbes Mayo…
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