Glen Osmond is a suburb of
Adelaide
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,
South Australia
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in the
City of Burnside
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which is in the foothills of the
Adelaide Hills. It is well known for the road intersection on the western side of the suburb, where the
South Eastern Freeway
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(National Route M1) from the
Adelaide Hills and the main route from
Melbourne
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splits into National Route A17
Portrush Road
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(north, the main route towards
Port Adelaide),
Glen Osmond Road, Adelaide
Glen Osmond Road is a major section of the Princes Highway (and Highway 1) in the city of Adelaide, South Australia. Connecting the Adelaide city centre with the Adelaide Hills via the South Eastern Freeway; Glen Osmond Road carries half of Ad ...
(northwest towards
Adelaide city centre
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) and state route A3
Cross Road west towards the coast and southern suburbs.
History
In 1841, silver and lead were found at Glen Osmond, leading to the establishment of the
Wheal Gawler and
Wheal Watkins mines. The mines operated in the 1840s, and again in the 1890s.
Cedric Stanton Hicks
Sir Cedric Stanton Hicks (2 June 1892 – 7 February 1976) was an Australian pharmacologist, physiologist and nutritionist. He was Professor of Human Physiology and Pharmacology at the University of Adelaide.
Biography
Hicks was born in Mosgiel ...
, founder of the
Australian Army Catering Corps
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See also
* Combat Ration One Man
* Field ration
* Field Ra ...
, died here in 1976.
Notable people
*
Nancy Cato
Nancy Fotheringham Cato (11 March 19173 July 2000) was an Australian writer who published more than twenty historical novels, biographies and volumes of poetry. Cato is also known for her work campaigning on environmental and conservation issu ...
(1917–2000), writer and activist, born and raised in Glen Osmond
Bibliography
Tom Gill, whose family were early settlers in the area, published a ''History and Topography of Glen Osmond'' in 1902.
[ The ]Whitington family William Smallpeice Whitington was an early English settler in South Australia, founder of the shipping company Whitington & Co. He emigrated on his own ship ''New Holland'' (Captain P. Bussell), arriving in South Australia in July 1840. That cargo, ...
were also early Glen Osmond residents. A
facsimile edition
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of the book was published by the
State Library of South Australia in 1974.
References
Suburbs of Adelaide
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