United 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 unexplained. The man who subdivided the land had already sailed back to England before the name appeared; the settlers who stayed built a Union Chapel and gave the district a reminder that survives today in …
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Victoria School, Morphett Vale
Named after a Scottish fishing village where Queen Victoria had passed on her first visit to Scotland, the Victoria School stood near Christie Creek for a quarter century — as much a community hall for Morphett Vale's social life as a classroom.
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The Union Chapel, Morphett Vale
Built in 1849 as the first Protestant place of worship in Morphett Vale, the Union Chapel served its Congregationalist congregation for barely twenty years before losing its flock to the new Baptist church down the road. Thomas Hardy bought the neglected building for fifty pounds in 1889 and turned it into a w…
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Emu 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. It had begun not as a winery at all but as a London importing house — built by a Scottish vigneron from Magill, that put an emu on its label in 1883.
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Glenheath 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 McClouds who gave the farm its name, and the Listons from Parkside — former accountant Henry Liston had stood at Ballarat during the Eureka Stockade — who rebuilt the house, planted almonds and vines, a…
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The 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, settling near Christie Creek in what is now industrial Lonsdale. His son Thomas went twice to the Victorian goldfields in 1852, farmed in partnership with his father for fifteen years, and eventually buil…
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Daniel Easton and Caroline Maybank arrived in South Australia on May 12, 1840, aboard the "Eliza," settling near Morphett Vale. Among Easton's many contributions as a mason and bricklayer, “Easton's Barn” stands out as a remarkable feat of early construction.
Spanning 12 by 6 meters with an unsupported curved, riveted galvanized iron roof, the barn is still standing on Woodcroft Drive.
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