The Adelaide City Council has a history spanning over 170 years of service to its citizens.

The Adelaide Steamship Company was Australia’s largest shipping company and one of South Australia’s most successful business ventures.

Providing housing for ‘industrious and deserving’ workers since 1899

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

At the height of its activity in the 1890s, the wine company of B Seppelt & Sons was the largest in Australia. In 2007 an Australian consortium called The Seppeltsfield Estate Trust bought the Seppeltsfield winery with a view to maintaining its winemaking traditions and reputation for hospitality. 

The Port Adelaide Institute served as a centre for social and cultural activities within Port Adelaide for over a century, and was the predecessor of the South Australian Maritime Museum and Port Adelaide Public Library.

The Presbyterian Church has a long history in South Australia, owing much to the early Scotish community.

Sailors' aid societies were first established at Port Adelaide in the 1860s to provide accommodation, entertainment, moral guidance and religious instruction to visiting mariners, and most remained in operation until the late twentieth century. 

Acquiring and developing land holdings in a coordinated way assists in orderly expansion and growth

Carpenters, tailors, bakers, carriers, cordwainers and coachmakers had formed unions within ten years of European settlement of South Australia, and by the 1870s there were thousands of union members in the colony.

Founded in 1888, the Women’s Suffrage League was an organisation dedicated to extending the political franchise to South Australian women, which was achieved in 1894.