Tea Tree Gully (TTG) is a suburb in the greater

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area, under the

City of Tea Tree Gully The City of Tea Tree Gully is a local council in the Australian state of South Australia, in the outer north-eastern suburbs of Adelaide. The major business district in the city is at Modbury, where Westfield Tea Tree Plaza, the Civic Centre a ...

. Tea Tree Gully is in the

local government area, the

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and the

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History

The suburb acquired its name from the white flowered 'tea trees' (''

Leptospermum lanigerum ''Leptospermum lanigerum'', commonly known as the woolly teatree, is a small tree or medium shrub from the plant family '' Myrtaceae''. Its common name derives from the conspicuously hairy capsules produced as fruit, along with the fine, silky ha ...

'') that grew in the gully. Their leaves were brewed as a tea substitute by early settlers. John Stevens originally purchased land in the area, subdividing it in 1850 and naming the settlement ''Steventon''. By 1867 the settlement was known variously as Tea Tree Gully or Steventon, but Steventon had dropped from common usage by 1900. It was also sometimes known as "Teatree Gully". ''Steventon'' Post Office opened around January 1859, was renamed ''Tea Tree Gully'' in 1872, ''Teatree Gully'' in 1925, ''Tea Tree Gully'' again in 1966 and St Agnes in 1969. The gully is a notable one, as it provided a gradient negotiable by bullock wagons travelling through the Mount Lofty Ranges and it had permanent springs which promoted the growth of tea tree. The historic

Highercombe Hotel The Tea Tree Gully Heritage Museum, formerly the Highercombe Hotel is a local history museum located in Tea Tree Gully, South Australia. It is one of the three museums operated by the History Trust of South Australia. It deals with the history o ...

in Perseverance Road and the

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in Haines Road are listed on the

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Highercombe Hotel

The Highercombe Hotel was built in 1854. Its first licensee was

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, who served as District Clerk of Tea Tree Gully council for 37 years and Member of Parliament for 6 years. The State Government purchased the building in 1879 and it was used from 1880 to 1963 as a post and telegraph office. During this period part of the building was used as a school classroom, and accommodation for Headmasters' and the Postmasters' families. From 1963 to 1967 the Tea Tree Gully Council used it as an office and library. The National Trust took over the building in 1967 and their Tea Tree Gully branch restored it and converted it to a heritage museum.

References

{{City of Tea Tree Gully suburbs Suburbs of Adelaide