Map showing section purchased at Mount Gambier [South Australia Company map] |
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| Title : | Map showing section purchased at Mount Gambier [South Australia Company map] |
![Map showing section purchased at Mount Gambier [South Australia Company map]](https://images.slsa.sa.gov.au/samemory/FoundationDocuments/BRG42_119/BRG42_119_43.jpg "Map showing section purchased at Mount Gambier [South Australia Company map]")
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| Source : | BRG 42/119/43 | |||
| Date of creation : | 1854 | |||
| Format : | Map | |||
| Contributor : | State Library catalogue | |||
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| Description : |
Map showing section 325 containing 106 acres in the Hundred of Gambier, purchased 9 June 1854, west of Mount Gambier. The town of Mount Gambier was settled initially on sections 1101-1103. The three lakes are shown in the middle of the map area, with the original sections 1 and 2 indicated at bottom left. Ink and watercolour on paper, ink notation. Scale 1 inch to 40 chains. Stamped 5.12.[18]54. (Original mounted on same sheet as map 44) The records of the South Australian Company deposited with the State Library of South Australia, Archival collections (BRG 42 or Business Record Group 42) provide historians and researchers with a useful perspective of the early development of an Australian colonial economy. Besides making a significant contribution to the founding and fashioning of the new settlement of South Australia, the South Australian Company continued to play and important part in the commercial affairs of Adelaide and its surrounding regions for more than a century. The volume of material contained in the record group is quite substantial, comprising some fifty major series of records which occupy close to nineteen metres of repository shelving. Most of the papers were deposited in the Archival collections in 1937-1938 and came from both the London and Adelaide offices of the company. The collection contains some 150 maps of company lands in South Australia. |
| Subjects | |
| Related names : | Gambier, Hundred of, (S. Aust.) |
| Coverage year : | 1854 |
| Period : | 1836-1851 |
| Place : | Mount Gambier and lakes |
| Region : | South East |
| Further reading : | Australian dictionary of biography. Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press; London; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1966-. Vol. 1, pp.15-18: George Fife Angas; vol. 1, pp. 443-444: William Giles; vol. 2, pp. 176-177: David McLaren; vol. 2, p. 481: Samuel Stephens. Capper, Henry. South Australia: containing hints to emigrants, proceedings of the South Australian Company, a variety of useful and authentic information, a map of the eastern coast of Gulf St. Vincent, and a plan of Adelaide. 2nd ed., considerably augmented. London: Robert Tyas, 1838. Hodder, Edwin. George Fife Angas, father and founder of South Australia. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1891. Perkins, Arthur James. South Australia; an agricultural and pastoral state in the making: first decade, 1836-46. Adelaide: Govt. Pr., 1939. Pike, Douglas. Paradise of dissent: South Australia 1829-1857. 2nd ed. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1967. pp.196-220, ch. 9: 'The South Australian Company.' Price, Archibald Grenfell. Founders & pioneers of South Australia: life studies of Edward Gibbon Wakefield, Charles Sturt, George Fife Angas, Sir John Hindmarsh, William Light, George Gawler, David McLaren, Augustus Kavel, and Francis Cadell; with illustrations & maps. Adelaide: Preece, 1929. |
| Internet links : | SA Memory, Foundation of South Australia 1800-1851 South Australian Company: Series description SA Memory, Foundation of South Australia 1800-1851 South Australian Company: Mapping State Library of South Australia Library Guide: South Australian history: Mapping sources for SA history State Library of South Australia Library Guide: South Australian history: South Australian Company |
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