The Hundred of Hindmarsh is a
cadastral
A cadastre or cadaster is a comprehensive recording of the real estate or real property's metes-and-bounds of a country.Jo Henssen, ''Basic Principles of the Main Cadastral Systems in the World,'/ref>
Often it is represented graphically in a cad ...
unit of
hundred
100 or one hundred (Roman numeral: C) is the natural number following 99 and preceding 101.
In medieval contexts, it may be described as the short hundred or five score in order to differentiate the English and Germanic use of "hundred" to de ...
in covering much of the locality of
Tantanoola, South Australia
Tantanoola is a town in regional South Australia. The name is derived from the aboriginal word ''tentunola'', which means ''boxwood / brushwood hill or camp''. ''Tantanoola'' was originally named 'Lucieton' by William Jervois, Governor Jervois a ...
, including the township.
It is one of the 21 hundreds of the
County of Grey
The County of Grey is one of the 49 cadastral counties of South Australia. It was proclaimed in 1846 by Governor Frederick Robe and named for former Governor George Grey. It covers the extreme south-east of the state from Penola and Lake Georg ...
located within the former Tantanoola Drainage District. Parts of the localities of
Burrungule,
Glencoe,
Koorine and
Mount McIntyre are also within the hundred. It was named in 1858 by Governor
Richard Graves MacDonnell
Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell (; 3 September 1814 – 5 February 1881) was an Anglo-Irish lawyer, judge and colonial governor. His posts as governor included Governor of the British Settlements in West Africa, Governor of Saint Vincent, Gove ...
after former governor
John Hindmarsh
Rear-Admiral Sir John Hindmarsh KH (baptised 22 May 1785 – 29 July 1860) was a naval officer and the first Governor of South Australia, from 28 December 1836 to 16 July 1838.
Family
His grandfather William Hindmarsh was a gardener in Con ...
.
Local government
The
District Council of Tantanoola
The District Council of Tantanoola was a Local government areas of South Australia, local government area seated at Tantanoola, South Australia, Tantanoola in South Australia from 1888 to circa 1960.
History
According to South Australian local g ...
was established out of the Tantanoola Drainage District in 1888, bringing local government to the hundred for the first time. Tantanoola council was amalgamated into the
District Council of Millicent
The District Council of Millicent (formerly the District Council of Mayurra) was a local government area in South Australia seated at Millicent.
History
According to South Australian local government historian Sue Marsden "development of South ...
circa 1950s and ultimately became part of
Wattle Range Council
Wattle Range Council is a local government area in the Limestone Coast region of South Australia. It stretches from the coast at Beachport east to the Victorian border. It had a population of over 11,000 as at the 2016 Census.
The council is ...
when Millicent was amalgamated with its neighbouring local councils in 1997.
See also
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Lands administrative divisions of South Australia
The lands administrative divisions of South Australia are the cadastral (i.e., comprehensively surveyed and mapped) units of counties and hundreds in South Australia. They are located only in the south-eastern part of the state, and do not cove ...
References
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Hindmarsh
1858 establishments in Australia