Boyle Travers Finniss was the first Premier of South Australia, serving from 24 October 1856 to 20 August 1857.
The Mount Barker District Council is a local government area centred on the town of Mount Barker just outside the Adelaide metropolitan area in South Australia.
Eagle On The Hill is an unbounded locality in the Australian state of South Australia located in the suburb of Crafers West on the western face of the Adelaide Hills overlooking the Adelaide metropolitan area.
The Register, originally the South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register, and later South Australian Register, was South Australia's first newspaper. It was first published in London in June 1836, moved to Adelaide in 1837, and folded into The Advertiser almost a century later in February 1931.
Alexander Tolmer was a South Australian police officer and Police Commissioner. He migrated to the new colony in 1840 and was made sub-inspector by Governor George Gawler.
Laggan is a small village in the Southern Tablelands, New South Wales, Australia in Upper Lachlan Shire. At the 2016 census, Laggan had a population of 358.
Adelaide Educational Institution was a privately run non-sectarian academy for boys in Adelaide founded in 1852 by John Lorenzo Young.
He avoided rote learning, punishment and religious instruction, but taught moral philosophy, physiology, political economy and mechanical drawing ... (and) surveying on field trips.
The Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Society of South Australia was founded in November 1839 as the South Australian Agricultural Society with the aim of promoting primary industries in the Colony. The Society and its functions were patterned on similar organisations in England, and in its successive incarnations, the organisation has continued to pursue this aim to the current day.
The Old Adelaide Football Club, often referred to as the Old Adelaide club, was an Australian rules football club based in Adelaide. Founded on 26 April 1860, it was the first football club formed in South Australia.
Thomas Burgoyne was a builder and politician in the early days of the colony of South Australia.
Edward John Peake was a winemaker, auctioneer, land agent, magistrate Member of Parliament and a prominent member of the Catholic Church in the early days of South Australia. born in Gloucestershire.
James and John Chambers were early settlers in South Australia who left England in 1836, became wealthy pastoralists and were closely connected with John McDouall Stuart's expeditions across the continent of Australia.
The 1890 South Australian Football Association season was the 14th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.
Charles Hill was an engraver, painter and arts educator in South Australia.
John Carruthers was a surveyor in South Australia, who fixed the boundary between the Northern Territory and Queensland.
The Pirie Street Brewery was a brewery in the early days of the British colony of South Australia. It was succeeded on the same site after a few years by the Adelaide Brewery.
Henry Jackson Moseley was a builder and publican in the very early days of the British colony of South Australia.
Francis Haire Bachelor of Arts, Trinity College, Dublin was a schoolmaster in the early days of Adelaide and the colony of South Australia. His Albert House Academy, the first Adelaide school of academic distinction, ran from 1850 to 1863.
St. John's is an Anglican Church at the south-east corner of the City of Adelaide dating from 1841. The first building was demolished in 1886 and its replacement opened in 1887.
Henry Alford was a police trooper in colonial South Australia, the colony's first mounted constable. He left the force at a time of low morale and became a hotel owner and publican, in which pursuit he was followed by his two sons.
