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Populating the Mid North: a History of Settlement
Interactive Maps
A timeline of Settlement with a 5-yearly progression of land surveys.
1854-2012 Construction of Railways
The development and decline of the railways.
The Development of Agriculture
Graphics, showing increase in productivity and land use, with early Newspaper articles
A number of articles related to the history of Guano
Extracts from the Parliamentary Act and Newspaper articles
1836-1970 History of Sheep Scab in SA
Excellent Article by W. Stephen Smith, B.V.Sc.,F.A.C.V.Sc. PDF file.
Infrastructure
1895-1999 The Electrification of the Mid North
Timeline and early Newspaper articles showing the development of the electricity grid in South Australia.
A brief description of the creation of Road Boards, etc, with an 1879 newspaper article on the condition of the Main North Road.
A history of the invention of the Telegraph and its introduction to Australia
Whims, wells and the Morgan - Whyalla Pipeline.
Articles from Early Newspapers & Books
1836-1842 Preliminary & Special Surveys
Extract from H. J. Scott's South Australia in 1887 describing how the British Government organised the sale of South Australia
Correspondence between an 'old' settler and a Glaswegian. The last paragraph is a gem.
1841 The first port, Trade, the Financial Crisis, etc:
Contemporary Newspaper article.
Contemporary Newspaper article.
A short extract from Anthony Forster's book 'South Australia, its Progress and Prosperity' 1866
Rainfall chart, maps and articles describing the creation of Goyder's Line of rainfall.
Newspaper article discussing the state of the government dam, a sign calling Warnertown Napperby, and the need for a school
Newspaper article describing the Hundred, the towns of Carrieton and Eurelia, and the problem of water.
Newspaper article describing the condition of the land on the first railway trip from Murray Bridge to Bordertown
1910 Early Farming on the Appila Plain
Newspaper article describing the settlement of the early agriculturalists.
1914 Petersburg. A Dip into History
Newspaper article describing the establishment of the town of Peterborough, the railways and the water.
- Maps+
1828-1874 Routes of Exploration
Contemporary alongside early maps
1850-1920 Progress of the State:
Pastoral, Alienated Land & Infrastructure
Interactive Maps
2012 Map of the Area covered by this Site
showing Terrain, Subdivisions, Roads, Towns, Services, etc
A timeline of Settlement with a 5-yearly progression of land surveys.
1854-2012 Construction of Railways
The development and decline of the railways.
- Documents+
1834-1917 Parliamentary Acts
Parliamentary Acts in PDF format
Books in PDF format
1829 Wakefield's Colonization Proposals
1839 John Stephens' South Australia
1841-2 Edward John Eyre's Journals
- Climate+
Interactive Graphics
Graphics courtesy of the Bureau of Meteorology
Figures courtesy of the Bureau of Meteorology
- Towns+
- Services+
Police
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Australia Post
Westpac
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- Galleries+
In the Hills East of Port Pirie
Watercolours by George Angus, 1846
Trees Alongside Pekina Creek at Orroroo
Abandoned farmhouses between Orroroo and Appila
A drive from Port Pirie over the Hills to the Beetalo Valley
Paddock beside the road between Pekina and Booleroo Centre
Aboriginal Fire Trees North of Port Germein Gorge Road - 1 and 2
Trees beside the road from Laura to Warnertown and Crystal Brook
Town Services
Police Station
98 Ayr Street . Phone: 08 8664 1037
Jamestown Swimming Pool
JAMESTOWN . Phone: 08 8664 1528
Sporting Clubs
Jamestown Appila Football Club Inc
Victoria Park, Spalding Road JAMESTOWN . Phone: 08 8664 1472
Jamestown Bowling Club
Mannanarie Road JAMESTOWN . Phone: 08 8664 1513
Jamestown Lawn Tennis Club
South Terrace JAMESTOWN . Phone: 08 8664 1822
Jamestown Community Library
Humphris Terrace JAMESTOWN . Phone: 08 8664 2713
Museums
Jamestown History Centre
Doon Terrace JAMESTOWN . Phone: 08 8665 2036
Jamestown National Trust Museum
Northern end Irvine Street JAMESTOWN . Phone: 08 8664 1942
Penn Cottage Museum of Pressed Glass
15 King Edward Terrace JAMESTOWN . Phone: 08 8664 0333
Education
Jamestown Community Children's Centre
78 Irvine Street JAMESTOWN . Phone: 08 8664 1276
Jamestown Community School
Humphris Terrace JAMESTOWN . Phone: 08 8664 2700
St James School
1 King Edward Terrace JAMESTOWN . Phone: 08 8664 1120
Medical
Dee Massage
JAMESTOWN . Phone: 0412 055 477
Helping Hand Community Care
38 Irvine Street JAMESTOWN . Phone: 08 8664 1267
Jamestown Dental Surgery
10 Cumnock Street JAMESTOWN . Phone: 08 8664 1204
Jamestown Hospital
South Terrace JAMESTOWN . Phone: 08 8664 1406
Jamestown Hydrotherapy Pool & Gymnasium
66 Irvine Street JAMESTOWN . Phone: 08 8664 1139
Jamestown Medical Centre
66 Irvine Street JAMESTOWN . Phone: 08 8664 1078
Jamestown Chemmart Pharmacy
53 Ayr Street JAMESTOWN . Phone: 08 8664 1032
JM Optical
82 Ayr Street JAMESTOWN . Phone: 08 8664 1678
Joslin Family & Sports Chiropractic
66 Irvine Street JAMESTOWN . Phone: 08 8362 5551
Lisa Sartorio, Physiotherapist
23 Irvine Street JAMESTOWN . Phone: 08 8664 1752
Tara Hunt Massage
JAMESTOWN . Phone: 0419 351 716
Accommodation
Bundaleer Sporting & Recreation Grounds
RM Williams Way BUNDALEER . Phone: 08 8664 0979
Commercial Hotel Motel
35 Ayr Street JAMESTOWN . Phone: 08 8664 1013 www.jamestowncommercialhotel.com.au
Country Retreat Caravan Park
103 Ayr Street JAMESTOWN . Phone: 08 8664 0077
Curnow's Hut & Conservator's Hut
Springs Road BUNDALEER FOREST . Phone: 08 8668 5000
Jamestown Hotel
79 Ayr Street JAMESTOWN . Phone: 08 8664 1387
Jamestown Motel Terraces
10 Ayr Street JAMESTOWN . Phone: 0408 086 353
North Bundaleer Homestead
RM Williams Way BUNDALEER . Phone: 00407 615 352
Peggy's Retreat
Klingner Road MANNANARIE . Phone: 0427 196 991 www.peggysretreat.com.au
Railway Hotel Motel
32 - 34 Alexandra Terrace JAMESTOWN . Phone: 08 8664 1035
Motorhome Reserve
Vohr Street JAMESTOWN . Phone: 08 8664 0070
Click here to see the Jamestown website (opens in a new tab)
Jamestown's excellent and informative website has a comprehensive Business Directory, listing the town's many and varied facilities, and showing that Jamestown is both thriving and successful. (The 7 day Foodland supermarket more than rivals Port Pirie.)
This is a comfortable town to live in - not so big that it's impossible to feel part of the community - small enough that the shop assistants remember you with a smile. It is full of friendly people, many of whom have gone away to Adelaide or further, but returned.
207 kilometres north of Adelaide, it is on the banks of the Belalie Creek and the railway line between Gladstone and Peterborough runs through it. The town was surveyed in 1871 and, by 1878, most of the beautiful stone buildings in the main (Ayr) street had been built. It was the first town with a tree planting programme which, having started in 1879, provides the streets with now massive and majestic trees. The Belalie Creek was dammed at around the same period, providing ornamental, fresh green areas. The view from the dentist's window is particularly soothing.
As the Mid North area grows and changes, Jamestown has become a centre for people retiring from the land, Adelaide, or just suburbia and, consequently, health facilities have developed and improved. The hydrotherapy pool is a significant asset.
The town has a common effluent drainage system and reticulated mains water, brought all the way from the River Murray at Morgan.
