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Plan of the County of Hindmarsh compiled from the Government plans [South Australia Company map]
Title : Plan of the County of Hindmarsh compiled from the Government plans [South Australia Company map] Plan of the County of Hindmarsh compiled from the Government plans [South Australia Company map]
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Source : BRG 42/119/26
Date of creation : 1854
Additional Creator : Stephenson, Robert
Format : Map
Contributor : State Library catalogue
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Plan of the county of Hindmarsh, with section numbers given and those unsold marked. Boundaries of sections 'D' and 'E' in the Hundreds of Kuitpo, Nkangkita and Goolwa have been coloured. Scattered section numbers shown in green. (Lake Alexandrina is still shown as Lake Victoria, its change of name proposed after the accession of Queen Victoria.) Mount Barker mineral survey shown. Lithograph with watercolour. Stamped 29.11.[18]55.


The records of the South Australian Company deposited with the State Library of South Australia, Archival collections (BRG 42 or Business Record Group 42) provide historians and researchers with a useful perspective of the early development of an Australian colonial economy. Besides making a significant contribution to the founding and fashioning of the new settlement of South Australia, the South Australian Company continued to play and important part in the commercial affairs of Adelaide and its surrounding regions for more than a century.

The volume of material contained in the record group is quite substantial, comprising some fifty major series of records which occupy close to nineteen metres of repository shelving. Most of the papers were deposited in the Archival collections in 1937-1938 and came from both the London and Adelaide offices of the company. The collection contains some 150 maps of company lands in South Australia.

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Coverage year : 1854
Period : 1852-1883
Place : Hindmarsh Island and Goolwa
Region : Fleurieu Peninsula
Further reading :

Conigrave, J. F. (Mrs.) Reminiscences of the early days Perth: Brokensha & Shaw, 1916

Harrison, Robert. 'A South Australian miser,' Colonial sketches, or five years in South Australia with hints to capitalists and emigrants, London: Hall, Virtue and Co., 1862

Tolley, J.C. South coast story: a history of Goolwa, Port Elliot, Middleton and the Murray mouth Port Elliot, S. Aust. : District Council of Port Elliot, 1982

South Australian Company. Prospectus of the South Australian Company. London: The Company, 1835

Internet links :

SA Memory, Foundation of South Australia 1800-1851 South Australian Company

State Library of South Australia Library Guide: South Australian history: Mapping sources for SA history

State Library of South Australia Library Guide: South Australian history: South Australian Company


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