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Agriculture

South Australian agriculture began in 1837 with activity in Adelaide Plains, the Fleurieu Peninsula, Barossa Valley and Clare.

1830s, 1840s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s
Anglican Church

An important shaper of South Australian society, particularly in religious circles, education, welfare, the professions and politics.

religious, institution, Christian

1830s, 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000-2010, 2010s
Auditor-General

Independent auditing of Government is established in the position of the colonies first auditor general

1830s, 1840s, 1930s
August Kavel

August Ludwig Christian Kavel was born in Berlin, Prussia, on 3rd September 1798. After training at Berlin University, where he…

1830s, 1840s, 1850s
Baptist Church

Baptists are a much higher proportion of regular churchgoers than the rest of the state’s population

1830s, 1840s, early twentieth century, early twenty–first century, late nineteenth century, late twentieth century, mid nineteenth century, mid twentieth century
Barque South Australian

A former mail transport and Royal Navy vessel, the barque South Australian was integral to the early colonisation of South…

1830s
Boyle Travers Finniss

Boyle Travers Finniss (1807–1893), South Australia’s first premier, was born at sea off the Cape of Good Hope and educated…

1830s, 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1880s
Boyle Travers Finniss

Boyle Travers Finniss joins the catalogue of Adelaide street names from the comparatively lowly position of Assistant Surveyor to Colonel…

Adelaide Street Names, Finniss Street, Street Naming Committee

1830s, Early 1800s, Late 1800s, Mid 1800s
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

City & Town Streets

1830s, 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, early twenty–first century
Bushrangers

No bushrangers to threaten the utopian dream, but criminal activity led to Australia’s first police force

1830s
Captain Charles Sturt

Charles Napier Sturt was born in Bengal, India, on 28th April 1795, the son of judge Thomas Napier Lennox Sturt.…

1830s, 1840s, 1850s, 1860s
Captain Charles Sturt

At first inclination Captain Charles Sturt seems an obvious choice for immortality in the streets of Adelaide. After all, he…

Street Naming Committee

1830s, 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, Early 1800s, Late 1700s
Captain Charles Sturt Memorial

Leaning forward and shielding his eyes from the sun, this bronze figure of Sturt looks over Victoria Square, not the…

statue

farewell, sculpture

1830s, 1840s, 1900-1910, 1910s
Chalmers Church Free Church of Scotland

The second oldest remaining church in Adelaide, Scots Church is still in use today.

1830s, 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, early twentieth century
Charles Kemeys Kemeys Tynte

The original list of the Street Naming Committee bearing the fifty-six streets and six squares of the city of Adelaide…

Street Naming Committee, Tynte Street

1830s, Early 1800s, Late 1700s, Mid 1800s
Charles Mann

When the Street Naming Committee sat to name the streets of Adelaide, Charles Mann, the Advocate General appointed by the…

Adelaide Street Names, Mann Terrace, Street Naming Committee

1830s, Mid 1800s
Climate

Climate was and still is an important factor in how and where South Australia first settled.

1800-1810, 1830s
Colonel George Palmer Jnr

Lieutenant Colonel George Palmer Jnr has been immortalised in Palmer Place, North Adelaide as a member of the South Australian…

Adelaide Street Names, Palmer Place, Street Naming Committee

1830s, Early 1800s, Late 1800s, Mid 1800s
Colonel Light statue

Colonel William Light’s statue on Montefiore Hill pointing towards the centre of Adelaide has come to symbolise the city that…

statue

funeral, linguist, musician, painter, plan, sailor, soldier, survey, surveyor

1830s, 1840s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1930s, early twenty–first century
Colonel Light Survey Marker

Colonel William Light’s survey marker from 1837 is to be incorporated in the new Royal Adelaide Hospital site

monuments and memorials

fire, obelisk, plan, survey

1830s, 1920s
Colonel Robert Torrens

Robert Torrens’ accomplishments by most standards were formidable. He was a writer of more than ninety books, a decorated military…

Adelaide Street Names, River Torrens, Street Naming Committee

1800s, 1810s, 1820s, 1830s, 1840’s
Colonel William Light

William Light was born on 27th April 1786 at Kuala Kedah in Malaya, the son of Captain Francis Light and…

1830s
Colonel William Light

Colonel William Light is a household name in South Australia. Most would be familiar with his tall and prominent bronze…

Adelaide City Plan, Light Square, Street Naming Committee

1830s, Early 1800s, Late 1700s
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

monuments and memorials

grave, linguist, map, musician, painter, plan, sailor, soldier, survey, surveyor

1830s, 1840s, 1870s, 1890s, 1900-1910
Cup

This cup was presented to the Art Gallery of South Australia by Queen Mary as part of Empire-wide celebrations for…

1830s
Customs Houses of Port Adelaide

From its earliest days, the South Australian government applied customs duty (charges levied on all foreign and domestic imported goods)…

1830s, 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s
Destitute Asylum

Relief for the poor, the pregnant and the unemployed was a theme from the colony’s commencement

1830s, 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1910s
Dr Charles George Everard

Charles Everard, accompanied by his wife Catherine and their four children, set sail from England on the Africaine on 28…

1830s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s
Duke of Wellington

It is tempting to speculate that Wellington Square was deliberately set aside from the other squares in Adelaide because the…

Street Naming Committee, Wellington Square

1830s, Early 1800s, Late 1700s, Mid 1800s
Dutton Family

Founders of ‘Anlaby’ station, featured in McLeod’s Daughters, the Dutton brothers contributed to early mining ventures and pastoralism in the states…

1820s, 1830s, 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1990s

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Afghans

A transcontinental train, ‘The Ghan’, now commemorates the Afghan cameleers and their beasts who helped to pioneer the Outback

Arbor Day

Arbor Day

School children were encouraged to plant trees in an early sign of environmental consciousness

Bicycles

Bicycles

From ‘boneshakers’ to penny-farthings to mountain bikes, bicycles have certainly changed since the 1860s.

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