Map of
Adelaide

Squares
River
Public
Reserves

List of
Streets

Site Info

History of Adelaide Through Street Names

Site Information

Introduction & Map (Prints 1 page)
Squares, River, & Public Reserves (Prints 3 pages)
Alphabetical List of Streets (Prints 2 pages)
- The Street Naming Committee
Angas Street to Currie Street (Prints 3 pages)
Finniss Street to Grote Street (Prints 3 pages)
Halifax Street to Kingston terrace (Prints 3 pages)
King William St to O'Connell Street (Prints 3 pages)
Pennington Tce to Tynte Street (Prints 2 pages)
Wakefield Street to Wright Street (Prints 1 page)
Site Information & Sources (Prints 1 page)
The main Primary Sources used in compiling this site are:-
The Royal Geographical Society of S.A. Inc. Library
  • Report On The Speeches At A Dinner To Capt. John Hindmarsh(Charles Mann 1835)
  • The Morning Chronicle Report Of The Meeting at Exeter Hall
  • Colonisation in South Australia (Col. R. Torrens 1835)
  • Correspondence of The Colonial Office 1841
  • The Founding of South Australia
    (Gouger's Journals edited by E. Hodder 1898)
  • History of South Australia (Rev. John Blacket 1911)
  • Paradise of Dissent (Douglas Pike 1964)

The State Library of South Australia
  • Private Record Group of Robert Gouger
  • Private Record Group of John Brown
  • Private Record Group of Colonel Light
  • The Southern Australian newspaper
  • The South Australian Record newspaper
  • Various Research Notes

State Records (formerly the Public Records Office)
- Streets of Adelaide volume Register Newspictorial 1929
- Dictionary Cards catalogue
- Names of Streets in Adelaide (Charles Hope Harris 1893)
- Correspondence of the Colonisation Commissioners for SA
- Records of The SA Literary & Scientific Association 1834

Recommended Further Reading
- Outline of the Plan of a Proposed Colony to be founded on the South Coast of Australia with an account of The Soil, Climate, Rivers &c. - With Maps (Nicol 1834) - fascimilie Austaprint 1978