The District Council of Mount Pleasant was a

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from 1935 to 1997. The council seat was located at Mount Pleasant. It was established on 1 May 1935 following the amalgamation of the District Council of Springton and District Council of Tungkillo with a section of the

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and a section of the

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. It had an area of approximately , comprising mainly "agricultural, grazing and vineyard lands", and included the whole of the cadastral Hundreds of

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and Tungkillo and parts of the Hundreds of Moorooroo, Talunga, Finniss and Mobilong. It was divided into five wards (Eden Valley, Springton, Mount Pleasant, Tungkillo and Palmer), each represented by one councillor. The council office was located in Main Street, Mount Pleasant; initially a converted residence, it was replaced with a purpose-built council chambers on the same site in 1954. The council's responsibilities over time included road construction, the opening of the Mount Pleasant Kindergarten in 1980 and the provision of the Talunga Village units for the elderly in conjunction with the

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; it also redeveloped and owned Talunga Park as the Mount Pleasant Oval and Showgrounds. In 1986, the council district had an area of 633.4 square kilometres extending "from the Adelaide Hills to the

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flats", with an estimated population of 1,800, a quarter residing in Mount Pleasant itself. The primary industries of the district were wool, oats and barley, dairying and viticulture, while secondary industry was largely limited to its role as service centre for the district. The council ceased to exist on 1 July 1997, when it was divided between the

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, which had been established in 1996, and the new

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. The north west portion spanning the Barossa Range and Mount Gould Range, including the townships of Mount Pleasant, Springton and Eden Valley portion went to the Barossa Council, while the larger remainder became the Palmer-Tungkillo Ward of the Mid Murray Council.

Chairmen

* Arthur Lewis Starkey (1935-1938) * Peter Trail Miller (1939-1946) * Dudley Stow Smith (1947) * Arthur Lewis Starkey (1948-1953) * Alan Geoffrey Lillecrapp (1954-1979) * Brian George Pym (1979-1993)

References

{{Former local government areas in South Australia Mount Pleasant 1935 establishments in Australia 1997 disestablishments in Australia