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Anglican Church
An important shaper of South Australian society, particularly in religious circles, education, welfare, the professions and politics.
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Auditor-General
Independent auditing of Government is established in the position of the colonies first auditor general
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Baptist Church
Baptists are a much higher proportion of regular churchgoers than the rest of the state’s population
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Barque South Australian
A former mail transport and Royal Navy vessel, the barque South Australian was integral to the early colonisation of South…
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Brown Street
Brown Street, running from South Terrace to Grote Street, morphed into Morphett Street in 1967 but the area retains its out-of-the-way feel
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Bushrangers
No bushrangers to threaten the utopian dream, but criminal activity led to Australia’s first police force
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Captain Charles Sturt
Charles Napier Sturt was born in Bengal, India, on 28th April 1795, the son of judge Thomas Napier Lennox Sturt.…
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Chalmers Church Free Church of Scotland
The second oldest remaining church in Adelaide, Scots Church is still in use today.
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Colonel Light Survey Marker
Colonel William Light’s survey marker from 1837 is to be incorporated in the new Royal Adelaide Hospital site
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Colonel William Light
William Light was born on 27th April 1786 at Kuala Kedah in Malaya, the son of Captain Francis Light and…
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Colonel William Light Grave and Monument
Colonel William Light’s grave remains in Light Square, while Light’s Monument there has been replaced and embellished over time
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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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East Terrace
A street in an area of contrasts – the rich, the poor, society figures, outcasts, business, leisure, health and education are…
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Edward Gibbon Wakefield
Edward Gibbon Wakefield was born into a family of English Quaker reformers. Following his elopement with a young heiress who…
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Emigration Square
Care for migrants, the unemployed and the destitute was evident from South Australia’s foundation days.
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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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Foundation
South Australia’s foundation – envisaged as the perfect ‘Wakefieldian’ colony – but was it?
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Freemasonry
The first South Australian Freemasons lodge formed in England, before the colony of South Australia was settled.
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