The City of Port Adelaide was a
local government area of
South Australia
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centred at the
port of Adelaide from 1855 to 1996.
Early years
The council was established on 27 December 1855 when the Corporate Town of Port Adelaide was proclaimed as a new municipality centred on the township of the port of Adelaide, which had been opened some years prior in 1837.
From 1884 to 1900 the adjacent district councils of
Portland Estate
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History
The Estate's development dates from 1715 when speculative plan ...
,
Birkenhead
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,
Queenstown and Alberton, and
Rosewater, and the
Corporate Town of Semaphore
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, were amalgamated with the Town of Port Adelaide, dramatically increasing its size.
On 23 May 1901, Port Adelaide was proclaimed a city by Governor
Tennyson
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and became the City of Port Adelaide.
From the late 1830s to 1945, the area surrounding Port Adelaide was subdivided into many small district areas as owners bought, subdivided and sold areas of land. As the areas became smaller, and more landowners named their own estates, the number of these early "suburbs" reached 90.
1940s to 1996
By the 1940s the number of suburbs was becoming a problem, so the Port Adelaide Council moved to reduce the number of local district areas to 18, in 1945. The boundaries and names of the suburbs were further stabilised when postcodes were introduced to Australia in 1967.
In March 1996 the City of Port Adelaide merged with the
City of Enfield
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to form the new
City of Port Adelaide Enfield
The City of Port Adelaide Enfield, located across inner north and north-western suburbs of Adelaide, is one of the largest metropolitan councils within South Australia. It was established on 26 March 1996 by the amalgamation of the City of Port ...
.
Mayors of Port Adelaide
(Corporate Town of Port Adelaide)
* Captain French; first mayor of Port Adelaide
*
J. W. Smith
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"for five or six years"
* F. Reynolds 1864
*
J. M. Sinclair 1866–1869
* John Formby 1871
* J. M. Sinclair 1873–1876
* John Formby 1879
*
Theodore Hack
Theodore Hack (17 November 1840 – 27 December 1902) was a South Australian politician.
He was born at Echunga, South Australia a son of John Barton Hack and his wife Bridget Hack, née Watson, and was educated at the Adelaide Educational Inst ...
* Henry William Thompson 1881
*
George Bollen 1883
* Thomas John King 1884
* Sidney Malin 1886
* J. Cleaver 1889
* Charles Tucker 1891
* Bernard Sigrist 1894
* C. R. Morris 1895
* T. Grose 1899
(Greater Port Adelaide formed from union with
Semaphore)
* J. W. Caire 1900
* J. C. G. Jurs 1901
*
R. S. Guthrie 1902
* J. W. Caire 1904
* John Sweeney 1905
* A. W. Brown 1908
* W. T. Rofe 1910
* E. Branford 1912
* J. H. Clouston 1912
* John Sweeney 1916
* R. H. Smith 1918
* Lewis 1920
* J. Anderson 1920
* H. Slade 1922
* A. O. R. Tapp 1925
* F. J. Brown 1927
* A. J. W. Lewis 1930
* J. Gibb 1933
* Harry William Bray (1934–1937)
* Ralph Wright (1937–1940)
* Alfred Lowrie Good (1940–1943)
* William Henry Gilbert (1943–1946)
* George McBeth MacKay (1946–1949)
* Harold Joseph Moore (1949–1955)
* Percy William Whicker (1956–1964)
* Anna Moir Rennie (1964–1969)
* Harold Charles Roy Marten (1969–1987)
* Ronald Bruse Hoskin (1987–1989)
* Julie Barbara Dearing (1989–1991)
* Robert Arthur Allen (1991–1995)
* Johannes Gerardus Pieters (1995-1996)
See also
*
Port Adelaide, South Australia
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Notes
Port Adelaide, City of
1855 establishments in Australia
1996 disestablishments in Australia
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