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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