In January 1837, sailors from the immigrant ship Coromandel deserted at Holdfast Bay and hid in the hills above Adelaide for six weeks, giving Coromandel Valley its name, though exactly where they hid...

The Bush Inn at 51 High Street, Willunga, is the third building to carry the name, and the second on this particular site. Its business dates to 1882, but the building standing today was rebuilt in…

On the high ground between Old Noarlunga and McLaren Vale, a hill named Ambush Hill appears on the district's old survey maps beside neighbouring farms called Jarvis, Stanfield and Oliver. Family…

Opened debt-free in 1895 and handed to the District Council as trustees, Aldinga's Recreation Ground hosted cricket, tennis, lantern-lit fetes, a wartime Australia Day, and the football club's record…

By 1855 a single London company owned sixty sections across the Hundred of Willunga - roughly 4,800 acres, thirty-one farmhouses and a brewery - and most of the district farmed as its tenants rather…

South Australia's first steam-driven flour mill rose inside the horseshoe bend of the Onkaparinga in 1843, raised by subscription among local settlers. It burned in 1883, was rebuilt as a chaff mill, ...

James Beith Wilson lived three months in the hollow trunk of a gum tree when he settled at McLaren Flat in 1839. The homestead his family raised there, Hillside, went on to lend its name to a cricket ...

A Cornishman off the emigrant ship Java, Thomas Polkinghorne bought the original slate quarries at Willunga in 1845 and sued the neighbour who dug through the boundary onto his ground. He sold out ins...

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