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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…

City & Town Streets

1830s, 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Aboriginal Country pre-contact, early twenty–first century
Edmund William Wright

Edmund William Wright was born on 4th April 1824 near London, England, the son of Stephen Wright, who is said…

1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s
Edward Gibbon Wakefield

Edward Gibbon Wakefield was born into a family of English Quaker reformers. Following his elopement with a young heiress who…

1830s, 1850s
Elder Family

Elder Family of Scots merchants and ship owners saw the infant South Australia as an opportunity to expand their business…

exploration, industry, pastoralism

1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s
Elder, Smith and Co’s Bonded and Free Stores

The Bond Store building once used to store goods is now the South Australian Maritime Museum.

private building

1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, early nineteenth century, late twentieth century, mid twentieth century
Exhibition Building and Grounds

Now lost, the Exhibition Building once dominated North Terrace

exhibition hall

1830s, 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s
Francis Hardy Faulding

Francis Hardy Faulding, the founder of the pharmaceutical manufacturing company, F.H. Faulding & Co., was born in Swinefleet, Yorkshire, England.…

1840s, 1850s, 1860s, mid nineteenth century
Frederick May

John Frederick May was born in 1840 in Perranzabuloe, Cornwall, England, the son of copper miner Henry May and his…

1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s
George Fife Angas

George Fife Angas was born on 1st May 1789 at Newcastle, England, the son of coachmaker Caleb Angas and his…

1830s, 1840s, 1850s, 1860s
George French Angas

George French Angas was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, on 25th April 1822, the eldest son of George Fife…

1840s, 1850s, 1860s
George Grote

Grote and Wakefield streets are paired together in the city of Adelaide and provide the central east/west axis and points…

19th Century Liberalism, Adelaide Street Names, Radical Politics, secret ballot

1820s, 1830s, 1840s, 1850s, 1860s
Government House

One of Adelaide’s oldest buildings, Government House welcomes thousands of visitors each year

official residence

1830s, 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1970s, 1980s, 2000-2010
Grote Street

Her Majesty’s Theatre and the Central Market continue to attract people to Grote Street

main street

1830s, 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000-2010, 2010s
Hart’s Mill Complex

An icon of Port Adelaide’s waterfront and the former home of South Australia’s longest continually operating flour mill, the Hart’s Mill…

1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 2000-2010, 2010s
Hindley Street

An eclectic mix since foundation, Hindley Street has seen it all

main street

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

Violence and election irregularities marred the process when, in 1855, South Australians got their first chance to elect politicians drawn…

1850s
Historical Relics Collection

A collection of nearly 400 objects related to the foundation and settlement of the British colony of South Australia.

1830s, 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s
Holy Trinity Church

Holy Trinity Church is the earliest surviving Anglican Church building in South Australia, and one of Adelaide’s oldest standing structures.

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

The oldest of North Terrace’s cultural buildings

public history building

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

James Hurtle Fisher was a London solicitor active in the colonizing movement. He became a member of the South Australian…

1830s, 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s
James Martin

Inventor, politician, philanthropist and founder of a famous engineering firm, James Martin was outstanding among the remarkable individuals who established…

1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s
Jervois Bridge

For over half a century Port Adelaide’s Jervois Bridge was the only link by which pedestrians and wheeled vehicles could transit…

1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000-2010, 2010s
Jessie Mary Cooper

Jessie Mary Cooper (née McAndrew) (1914–1993) was the first woman elected to South Australia’s parliament. Sydney-born, she graduated from the…

1850s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s
Joachim Matthias Wendt

Joachim Matthias Wendt was Danish, born in Dägeling, Holstein, on 26th June 1830, the son of Joachim Matthias Wendt, a…

1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1910s
John Dunn

John Dunn, who in later life made it a rule to give away at least 500 pounds a year in…

1800-1810, 1820s, 1830s, 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s
John McDouall Stuart

On 26th November 1862 ten exhausted, gaunt and ragged men, on their limping, emaciated horses, arrived at a remote stock…

1840s, 1850s, 1860s
John McDouall Stuart statue

The statue of inland explorer John McDouall Stuart at the corner of Victoria Square and Flinders Street, Adelaide, commemorates his place…

statue

explorer, sculpture, statue

1830s, 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1890s, 1900-1910, 1960s
John Morphett

John Morphett, namesake of the Adelaide suburb Morphettville, contributed widely to the cultural and economic support of early south Australia.

1830s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s
John Ridley

John Ridley was born on 26th May 1806 at West Boldon, Durham, England, the son of flourmiller John Ridley and…

1840s, 1850s
John Stokes Bagshaw

Born in Chetwynd, Shropshire, England, on 15th August 1808, John Stokes Bagshaw was the son of farmers, Edward and Margaret…

1830s, 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s

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