City of Port Adelaide

The City of Port Adelaide was a local government area of South Australia centred at the port of Adelaide.

Early years

The council of Port Adelaide was established on 27 December 1855 when Port Adelaide was declared a Corporate Town centred on the port of Adelaide, which had been opened some years prior in 1837.[1] From 1884 to 1900 the adjacent district councils of Portland Estate, Birkenhead, Alberton and Queenstown, and Rosewater, and the Corporate Town of Semaphore, were amalgamated with the Town of Port Adelaide, dramatically increasing its size.[1] On 23 May 1901, Port Adelaide was proclaimed a city by Governor Tennyson and became the City of Port Adelaide.[1]

From the late 1830s to 1945, the area surrounding Port Adelaide was subdivided into many small district areas as owners bought, subdivided and sold areas of land. As the areas became smaller, and more landowners named their own estates, the number of these early "suburbs" reached 90.

Modern Name Early Subdivision Name
Alberton Albert Town, Glebe
Birkenhead Bridgetown, Bridgewater, Davies Town, Sandwell
Ethelton Thornton
Exeter Bath, Davies Town, Fisherville, Freshwater, Greenwich, Staplehurst, Waterville
Gillman Newshaven, North Arm, Northarmton
Glanville Port Bridge, Waterville
Largs Bay Eastbourne, Ferryville, Guilford, Harveyton, Hastings, Newport, Shoreham, Ward Town, Margate
Largs North London, Swansea, Largs Bay Estate
Osborne Brooklyn, Mascotte, Midlunga, Blackpool, Austral-Brindisi Estate
Ottoway Guildford Park, Hardwicke, Norbiton, Sassafras Estate, Whiteville
Outer Harbor Eurimbla, Harbour Park, Portsmouth
Peterhead Farnham, Gold Diggers Village, Hamley, Sandwell
Port Adelaide Greytown, Moilong, Newhaven, Portland Estate, Portsea
Rosewater Bayswater, Paddington, Dockville, Perth, Yatala,[2] Rosatala, Kingsnorth, Greytown, Kingston, Kingston East, Kelmscott, Rosewater East
Semaphore Alderley, Clairville, Clifton, Freshwater, Kew, New Liverpool, Plymouth, Scarborough, Weymouth
Semaphore South Saint Margaret's, Thornton, Whitby
Taperoo Draper, Gedville Estate, Koolena, Kooraka, River View, Silicate, Silicate Beach
Wingfield Brooklyn, Dundas, Hull, Millicent, Myrtlehome, Newark, Norahville, Rosslyn, Wicklow

1940s to 1996

By the 1940s the number of suburbs was becoming a problem, so the Port Adelaide Council moved to reduce the number of local district areas to 18, in 1945. The boundaries and names of the suburbs were further stabilised when postcodes were introduced to Australia in 1967.[3]

In March 1996 the City of Port Adelaide merged with the City of Enfield to form the new City of Port Adelaide Enfield.[1]

Mayors of Port Adelaide

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Our History: Enfield History". City of Port Adelaide Enfield. Archived from the original on 3 April 2015. Retrieved 23 February 2016.
  2. ↑ The Official civic record of South Australia : centenary year, 1936. Adelaide: Universal Publicity Company. 1936. p. 32. "Yatala" is preserved in the names of a suburb situated within the boundaries of the City of Port Adelaide of two districts—Yatala North and Yatala South—to the north of the City of Adelaide.
  3. ↑ Couper-Smartt, 2003:167
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Matthews, Penny (1986), South Australia, the civic record, 1836-1986, Wakefield Press, p. 461, ISBN 978-0-949268-82-2
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