| Wattle Park Adelaide, South Australia | |
|---|---|
  Wattle Park | |
| Coordinates | 34°55′40″S138°40′37″E / 34.927812°S 138.677073°E |
| Population | 1,885 (SAL 2021) [1] |
| Postcode(s) | 5066 |
| LGA(s) | City of Burnside |
Wattle Park is a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia in the City of Burnside.
The suburb may have been named by George Scarfe for the property, sections 288 and 289 totalling around 68 acres (28 ha), [2] that he purchased around 1880. His residence, renamed "Scarfe House", became the Wattle Park Teachers College in 1957 until 1972, [3] when its usage and name were changed to the Wattle Park Teachers Centre until sold by the Education Department. In 1991 it became the centrepiece of "Wattle Grove", a retirement village for Southern Cross Homes.
The Stonyfell Olive Company was founded by Joseph Crompton [4] with William Mair and Sidney Clark [5] in 1873, with planting continuing until 1882 across Stonyfell and adjoining areas. [6] By the 1900 had a 100 acres (40 ha) planted with about 10,000 olive trees, around Penfold Road. [7] [8] In 1901, the company employed 81 workers. [6] This business became largely owned by the family of Owen Crompton (1875–1923) after his marriage to Sarah Simpson, daughter of A. M. Simpson, who settled on her the whole of his considerable stake in the company. With the inexorable expansion of Adelaide's suburbs, the land was sold to developers. [4] The olive crushing plant was actually in what is now Wattle Park, at the western end of Crompton Drive. [9] In August 1932, the Stonyfell Olive Company was the largest producer of olive oil in South Australia, and it entered into an agreement with Bickford's to do the bottling of the oil. [10]
Wattle Park Post Office opened on 8 April 1965 and closed in 1967. [11]
There are no schools in Wattle Park. The closest school to Wattle Park is St Peter's Collegiate Girls' School in Stonyfell. Other schools nearby are Norwood Morialta High School (Senior Campus) and Magill Primary School in Magill.
Wattle Park Kindergarten, formerly named Christopher Rawson Penfold Kindergarten after Christopher Rawson Penfold, is located on Yeltana Avenue. [12]
Waterfall Gully is an eastern suburb of the South Australian capital city of Adelaide. It is located in the foothills of the Mount Lofty Ranges around 5 km (3.1 mi) east-south-east of the Adelaide city centre. For the most part, the suburb encompasses one long gully with First Creek at its centre and Waterfall Gully Road running adjacent to the creek. At the southern end of the gully is First Falls, the waterfall for which the suburb was named. Part of the City of Burnside, Waterfall Gully is bounded to the north by the suburb of Burnside, from the north-east to south-east by Cleland National Park, to the south by Crafers West, and to the west by Leawood Gardens and Mount Osmond.
The City of Burnside is a local government area in the South Australian city of Adelaide stretching from the Adelaide Parklands into the Adelaide foothills with an area of 2,753 hectares. It was founded in August 1856 as the District Council of Burnside, the name of a property of an early settler, and was classed as a city in 1943. The LGA is bounded by Adelaide, Adelaide Hills Council, Campbelltown, Mitcham, Norwood Payneham and St Peters and Unley.
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George Scarfe was a merchant in Adelaide, South Australia, a partner in the firm of George P. Harris, Scarfe, & Co., later known as Harris Scarfe. Called a "genius of commerce", he was largely credited with the firm's early success and gained great personal wealth. His brother T. R. Scarfe (1843–1915), nephew F. G. Scarfe (1867–1961) and Frederick George's son-in-law C. C. Deeley were prominent in the 20th century development of the company.
Francis Clark and Son was an engineering business in the early days of South Australia, which later became Francis Clark and Sons.
Joseph Crompton was a vigneron, manufacturer and exporter who founded several companies in the early days of the colony of South Australia. The eastern foothills suburb of Stonyfell was named after the property he bought in 1858, on which vineyards were established. Stonyfell Winery still exists today, although the grapes are sourced from Langhorne Creek. Crompton also established olive groves and set up businesses manufacturing soap, and exporting animal skins and plant resins to Britain.
H. M. Martin and Son was a South Australian winemaking company based at Stonyfell in the Adelaide Hills.
Mary Penfold, née Holt, was an English businesswoman, pioneering winemaker and co-founder of Penfolds Winery.
Ferguson Conservation Park, formerly Ferguson National Pleasure Resort and Ferguson Recreation Park, is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located within the Adelaide metropolitan area in the suburb of Stonyfell, about 6.5 kilometres east of the Adelaide city centre.
David Packham was an Australian politician. He was a member of the South Australian House of Assembly from 1894 to 1896, representing the electorate of East Torrens. He had earlier been a Town of Kensington and Norwood councillor for 22 years, and was mayor from 1878 to 1880.
The District Council of East Torrens was a local government council of South Australia from 1853 to 1997.
Thomas Francis Hyland was a businessman of Victoria, Australia, instrumental in turning Penfolds Wines from a cottage industry to an Australian icon.
This article was first published in hardcopy in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 3, (MUP), 1969
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