From Fields to Barrels @fieldstobarrels.com · 05/09/2026A Noarlunga paddock hosted the first lacrosse match ever played in South Australia in 1885 — footballers who'd never seen the game kept trying to kick the ball. www.fieldstobarrels.com/posts/noarlu... 000
From Fields to Barrels @fieldstobarrels.com · 03/09/2026Three men drowned when Joseph Butterworth's boat capsized at Port Willunga in 1858 — his own flour mill outlasted him by barely a generation. www.fieldstobarrels.com/posts/butter... 000
From Fields to Barrels @fieldstobarrels.com · 31/08/2026Major Thomas O'Halloran arrived in South Australia in 1838 as a retired army officer, became the colony's first police commissioner, and for decades drove the building of a church for settlers in Hurtle Vale, Happy Valley and O'Halloran Hill—despite the government refusing funds. #LocalHistory 000
From Fields to Barrels @fieldstobarrels.com · 26/08/2026Captain Collet Barker sailed the Isabella into the Onkaparinga in April 1831, camping in the horseshoe bend where Noarlunga would rise. A fortnight later he was speared dead at the Murray Mouth — remembered by a cairn on Witton Bluff, above where his story began. #History 000
From Fields to Barrels @fieldstobarrels.com · 22/08/2026A McLaren Vale hotel sat empty and reputedly haunted for seventeen years before Thomas Hardy revived it — then it changed names five more times. www.fieldstobarrels.com/posts/clifto... 000
From Fields to Barrels @fieldstobarrels.com · 21/08/2026Leaving Scotland in 1839 with a letter from Sir James Fergusson, Peter Anderson chose a block beside Second Creek, named it Burnside (giving the suburb its name), later moved to Morphett Vale and named his homestead Archerfield; at his death he owned over 1,100 acres in six properties. #History 000
From Fields to Barrels @fieldstobarrels.com · 19/08/2026Alexander Anderson—publican, brewer, mill-builder and MP—founded #MorphettVale and ran the Emu Hotel for six years. A decade-long feud with the Reynells ended when locals forced him from the magistracy months before his 1862 death. #LocalHistory #SouthAustralia 000
From Fields to Barrels @fieldstobarrels.com · 17/08/2026Mildred Constance Dunstan's clifftop guest house at Port Willunga ran for nearly fifty years from 1907, drawing Adelaide families to the dunes above the Gulf. #PortWillunga #SouthAustralia #FleurieuPeninsula #McLarenVale #LocalHistory #SAHistory #HistoricPhotography #OnkaparingaHistory 000
From Fields to Barrels @fieldstobarrels.com · 16/08/2026A block on Aldinga's Old Coach Road passed from the family who founded the township to three generations of blacksmiths — the Pengillys, then John Noah Crisp — who kept the district's horses shod and its coaches built for the best part of a century. #Aldinga #SouthAustralia 000
From Fields to Barrels @fieldstobarrels.com · 16/08/2026In 1858 a young woman smashed a champagne bottle against Clarendon's new timber bridge. The ford it replaced had tested every cart bound south for twenty years. Sixty years later the timber rotted and the ford was pressed back into service before a concrete arch replaced it. #Clarendon #SAHistory 020
From Fields to Barrels @fieldstobarrels.com · 23/07/2026D.V. Fleming sealed South Australia's highways as its first Commissioner. In 1973, twenty-four years after he retired, they named this bridge after him. #SouthAustralia #LocalHistory #Adelaide 000
From Fields to Barrels @fieldstobarrels.com · 16/07/2026For two decades a flying fox carried buckets of clean white sand over the dunes behind Maslin Beach to a railway siding on the Willunga line, and the Noarlunga Sand Company fed the concrete of a growing Adelaide. #SouthAustralia #Adelaide #LocalHistory #SAHistory 000
From Fields to Barrels @fieldstobarrels.com · 02/07/2026Alexander Anderson landed in 1838 with a child born at sea, quarried stone at Brownhill Creek, then took up Mossgiel at Morphett Vale — a farm that stayed in Anderson hands for well over a century. #fieldstobarrels #australia #history #pioneers #southaustralia #heritage 010
From Fields to Barrels @fieldstobarrels.com · 26/06/2026William Sherriff sailed from Scotland in 1839 and named his Morphett Vale farm Dunglass, after the Haddingtonshire estate he had left behind. He helped found the district's first council, and today a road at Lonsdale and a stone ruin carry the family name. #fieldstobarrels #history #localhistory 000
From Fields to Barrels @fieldstobarrels.com · 13/06/2026Founded 1850, St Philip & St James Anglican Church at Noarlunga saw one minister serve 29 years without missing a service. Closed 2019, now privately owned. #FieldsToBarrels #SouthAustralianHistory #Heritage #History #LocalHistory #Churches 000
From Fields to Barrels @fieldstobarrels.com · 10/06/2026The Golden Pheasant Inn opened in Hackham in 1841 — built by William Holly, right across from his own cottage. It lost its licence by 1873, fell to ruin, and was eventually demolished. #FieldsToBarrels #SouthAustralianHistory #History #Australia #Pubs 010
From Fields to Barrels @fieldstobarrels.com · 06/06/2026A Morphett Vale winery stood for nearly a century before demolition in 1989. It began as a London importing house, founded by a Scottish vigneron from Magill — with an emu on the label by 1883. #FieldsToBarrels #SouthAustralianHistory #Wine #History #Australia #Emu #LocalHistory 000
From Fields to Barrels @fieldstobarrels.com · 06/06/2026Noarlunga's 1843 steam flour mill survived insolvency & an 1883 fire — only to close in 1885 as wheat quality declined. Later a brickworks, then workers' flats, now a private home. #FieldsToBarrels #SouthAustralianHistory #LocalHistory #Heritage #History 020
From Fields to Barrels @fieldstobarrels.com · 04/06/2026In 1895, Lambert & Rosa Christie established a farm across what is now Christies Beach. By 1923, Rosa had created the area's first subdivision — and holiday cottages were soon springing up on Witton Bluff. #SouthAustralia #ChristiesBeach #SAHistory #Adelaide #LocalHistory #FieldsToBarrels #history 000
From Fields to Barrels @fieldstobarrels.com · 04/06/2026Reynella's Crown Inn opened in 1855, established by Robert Hay opposite the old horse changing station. A natural stop for southbound coaches and locals alike. #History #Reynella #SAHistory #FieldsToBarrels 010
From Fields to Barrels @fieldstobarrels.com · 03/06/2026Mildred Constance Dunstan's clifftop guest house at Port Willunga ran for nearly fifty years from 1907, drawing Adelaide families to … www.fieldstobarrels.com/posts/alton… #AustralianHistory #Adelaide #LocalHistory #Heritage #History #Aldinga #Hotels #PortWillunga 020
From Fields to Barrels @fieldstobarrels.com · 03/06/2026Samuel White's Flour Mill From a tower beside his flour mill, Samuel White could signal passing ships by semaphore and receive back the current price of … www.fieldstobarrels.com/posts/samue… #AustralianHistory #Adelaide #LocalHistory #Heritage #Aldinga #Mills #Pioneers 000
From Fields to Barrels @fieldstobarrels.com · 01/06/2026The Doctor's House, Hackham Built in 1866 and large enough to earn the nickname Folly Hall, the stone house at the corner of Main South Road and Doctor's Road at H… www.fieldstobarrels.com/posts/docto… #AustralianHistory #Adelaide #LocalHistory #Heritage #Pioneers #Hackham 000
From Fields to Barrels @fieldstobarrels.com · 31/05/2026The Old Cave — Cellar No. 1, Reynella The oldest surviving wine cellar in Australia is a grass-covered mound at Reynella, dug by hand into limestone in 1… www.fieldstobarrels.com/posts/old-c… #AustralianHistory #Adelaide #LocalHistory #Heritage #Reynella #Wine #Pioneers 000
From Fields to Barrels @fieldstobarrels.com · 30/05/2026The Crown Inn, Reynella Built in 1854 on land sold by John Reynell to his first publican, the Crown Inn was the only hotel in Reynella for most of the colonial period … www.fieldstobarrels.com/posts/crown… #AustralianHistory #Adelaide #LocalHistory #Heritage #Reynella #Hotels 000
From Fields to Barrels @fieldstobarrels.com · 30/05/2026The Three Rifles Monument The Three Rifles Monument at O'Halloran Hill — now part of Keane War Memorial Gardens — was built on land don… www.fieldstobarrels.com/posts/three… #AustralianHistory #Adelaide #LocalHistory #Heritage #O'halloranHill #Military #Memorials #Pioneers 000
From Fields to Barrels @fieldstobarrels.com · 29/05/2026The Easter Camp at Happy Valley, 1911 In April 1911, fifteen hundred infantry and Light Horse assembled at Happy Valley for the annual Easter training … www.fieldstobarrels.com/posts/easte… #AustralianHistory #Adelaide #LocalHistory #Heritage #HappyValley #Military 000
From Fields to Barrels @fieldstobarrels.com · 28/05/2026The Tally-Ho Hotel, Clarendon Clarendon's first hotel stood on the bank of the Onkaparinga, its back door a few paces from the only ford in the valley. When the… www.fieldstobarrels.com/posts/tally… #AustralianHistory #Adelaide #LocalHistory #Heritage #Clarendon #Hotels 000
From Fields to Barrels @fieldstobarrels.com · 28/05/2026Clarendon Bridge In 1858 a young woman broke a champagne bottle against the new timber bridge at Clarendon, naming it for the village below. The ford … www.fieldstobarrels.com/posts/clare… #AustralianHistory #Adelaide #LocalHistory #Heritage #Clarendon #Transport #Rivers&Creeks 020
From Fields to Barrels @fieldstobarrels.com · 28/05/2026Dr Kelly and the Tintara Vineyard Company Before Thomas Hardy made Tintara a household name, the winery was a Scottish physician's ambitious gamble — seven hund… www.fieldstobarrels.com/posts/tinta… #AustralianHistory #Adelaide #LocalHistory #Heritage #Wine #MclarenVale 000
From Fields to Barrels @fieldstobarrels.com · 26/05/2026United States Vale A cluster of allotment settlers on Bains Road in Morphett Vale called their community 'United States' in the 1840s — a name whose origins remain unexpla… www.fieldstobarrels.com/posts/unite… #AustralianHistory #Adelaide #LocalHistory #Heritage #MorphettVale 000
From Fields to Barrels @fieldstobarrels.com · 25/05/2026The Happy Valley Congregational Church The first Congregational chapel at Happy Valley stood on the site of the reservoir; when the dam … www.fieldstobarrels.com/posts/happy… #AustralianHistory #Adelaide #LocalHistory #Heritage #HappyValley #Religion #Churches 000
From Fields to Barrels @fieldstobarrels.com · 24/05/2026The Victoria Hotel, Tapley's Hill The Victoria Hotel at the top of Tapley's Hill has stood on the main road south from Adelaide for over a century — fro… www.fieldstobarrels.com/posts/victo… #AustralianHistory #Adelaide #LocalHistory #Heritage #O'halloranHill #Hotels 000
From Fields to Barrels @fieldstobarrels.com · 23/05/2026Victoria School, Morphett Vale Named after a Scottish fishing village where Queen Victoria had passed on her first visit to Scotland, the Victoria Scho… www.fieldstobarrels.com/posts/victo… #AustralianHistory #Adelaide #LocalHistory #Heritage #MorphettVale #Hackham 000
From Fields to Barrels @fieldstobarrels.com · 22/05/2026The Union Chapel, Morphett Vale Built in 1849 as the first Protestant place of worship in Morphett Vale, the Union Chapel served its Congregati… www.fieldstobarrels.com/posts/union… #AustralianHistory #Adelaide #LocalHistory #Heritage #MorphettVale #Religion #Churches 010
From Fields to Barrels @fieldstobarrels.com · 22/05/2026Emu Wines, Morphett Vale The winery that stood on Wheatsheaf Road at Morphett Vale had a history that stretched back nearly a century before the buildings came down in 1989. … www.fieldstobarrels.com/posts/emu-w… #AustralianHistory #Adelaide #LocalHistory #Heritage #Wine #MorphettVale 000
From Fields to Barrels @fieldstobarrels.com · 21/05/2026Glenheath Farm Glenheath Farm at Lonsdale passed through three families in its first half-century: the Kings from Cornwall who broke the ground and built the homestead, the Mc… www.fieldstobarrels.com/posts/glenh… #AustralianHistory #Adelaide #LocalHistory #Heritage #MorphettVale 010
From Fields to Barrels @fieldstobarrels.com · 20/05/2026The O'Sullivan Family of Morphett Vale Ignatius O'Sullivan brought his wife Honora and five children to Morphett Vale on the Mary Dugdale in 1840, sett… www.fieldstobarrels.com/posts/osull… #AustralianHistory #Adelaide #LocalHistory #Heritage #Post #MorphettVale #Pioneers #Lost 000
From Fields to Barrels @fieldstobarrels.com · 19/05/2026Horseshoe Inn, Noarlunga Licensed in July 1840, the Horseshoe Inn at the corner of the Onkaparinga's horseshoe bend was the first hotel in the southern districts. For nearly a century it ser… www.fieldstobarrels.com/posts/horse… #AustralianHistory #Adelaide #LocalHistory #Heritage 021