When was adelaide built

City of Churches Adelaide has many nicknames, including the city of churches. To understand this nickname, you merely have to take a look around the city. Some are historic monuments where some are simply a few years old. Home to the biggest display of Aboriginal Artefacts Although this might not be your first guess, Adelaide is home to the largest display of Aboriginal artefacts.

You can see this huge range on display at the South Australia Museum. Go in for an exceptional education of the past and present lives of the Indigenous communities of Australia. The Opal City Adelaide is the opal capital of Australia, famous both locally and internationally for the best-selling opals available. Lighten your wallets as you shop around to find the best-priced opal for you!

The fortunes of the city therefore mirrored the boom-and-bust economy of South Australia. In the booms, such as the one following the discovery of copper in the Mid North in , wealth poured into the city, lavishly endowing the university and the cultural resources on North Terrace and financing the construction of grand mansions. During the busts, as in the s and s, when up to a third of male workers were unemployed, the ramshackle encampments by the River Torrens at Pinkie Flat expanded and the semi-slums around Light Square became ever more derelict.

Development in the first century of white settlement was limited mostly to the infilling of the vacant town acres and, particularly in the west end and North Adelaide, their sub-division by small cross-streets and lanes lined with terraced cottages. Except in the small commercial core, the city was still a place where people lived, even though its share of the metropolitan population fell steadily.

Fifty years after settlement 40 per cent of urban residents were living within the parklands; but after another 50 years only 12 per cent were still doing so. The population had peaked at 43 in , remaining fairly stable at about 39 until the end of World War II. But in the s virtually all the square mile became a de facto industrial zone. Warehouses, business premises, workshops and waste ground used for car parking replaced houses in many of the cross-streets.

For at least a decade after the city lost dwellings and people each year. Indeed, a planning report of foresaw, and welcomed, no dwellings at all in the South Adelaide of 30 years hence.

Fortunately the dangers were recognised in time. The city planner, Hugh Bubb, saw at first hand in America the social consequences of eviscerating inner cities. However, the proposed remedies would have been much worse than the disease. Fortunately such grandiose plans foundered on the usual rock — lack of money. The foundation stone of Holy Trinity Church was laid in Old Adelaide Gaol was built in It was decommissioned in Ayers House was built in From to it was the home of Henry Ayers.

Meanwhile, Adelaide Town Hall was built in Adelaide General Post Office was built in It opened on 6 May However, Adelaide Post Office did not get its clock until Edmund Wright House was also built in In Adelaide the population of Adelaide was , and it was growing rapidly.

As Adelaide expanded more buildings were added. Parliament House in Adelaide was built in two parts. The West Wing was built in and the East Wing was built in In a statue of William Light was unveiled. Meanwhile, amenities in Adelaide improved.