Beaufort is a locality along the
Augusta Highway in the
Mid North region of
South Australia. The town was surveyed in November 1878 and gazetted on 4 September 1879.
History
Indigenous
According to the ''Manning Index of South Australian History'' the "
Nantuwwara ictribe of some 25 to 30 once occupied the country from the
River Wakefield
A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of wate ...
, north to
Whitwarta and west to
Hummock Range
The Hummocks or Hummock Range is a range of hills in the northern Mount Lofty Ranges extending north from the eastern edge of Yorke Peninsula in South Australia. It is traversed by the Copper Coast Highway immediately west of where it passes arou ...
", an area which would encompass the modern localities of
Bowmans,
Whitwarta,
Goyder, Beaufort,
Nantawarra
Nantawarra is a locality in South Australia located about north of the Adelaide city centre and within the local government area known as the Wakefield Regional Council. The locality occupies land on both sides of Highway 1 (Australia), Highwa ...
and
Mount Templeton. The term Nantuwara (or Nantuwaru) is considered to be a specific name for the northern hordes of the
Kaurna people. Stone implements thought to have been used by the Nantuwara people were discovered at sites adjoining the banks of the lower reaches of the River Wakefield and added to a
South Australian Museum collection curated by
Harold Cooper in the 1960s.
1900s
The Beaufort had a school opened in 1917 and had 13 students in 1950 but has since closed.
In 1918 a
Methodist Church
Methodism, also called the Methodist movement, is a group of historically related Christian denomination, denominations of Protestantism, Protestant Christianity whose origins, doctrine and practice derive from the life and teachings of John W ...
was constructed in Beaufort. The church was closed and demolished in the early 1950s and rebuilt in 1953 to the south in
Clovelly Park
Clovelly Park is an inner southern suburb of Adelaide in the local government area of the City of Marion. Before becoming an 'advanced' suburb, it was a farm and vineyard. The suburb is bordered by Daws Road to the north, South Road to the eas ...
, one of
Adelaide's new housing suburbs at the time.
References
Towns in South Australia
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