The Map

Map Title	Plan Of Country Sections &c In The Immediate Vicinity Of The City Of Adelaide In The Province Of South Australia.
Year	1849
Publisher	James Chaplin Hailes
Publisher Details	Adelaide : Sold at Platts's Library, Hindley Street, corner of King William Street And may be had of J.C. Hailes, 104 Leadenhall Strt, London.
Publication Year	Late 1849 / Early 1850
Size	71.8cm x 65.2cm (28¼" x 25¾")
Scale	Not given. 1" : ¾ Statute Mile (Approx.)
Description	Hand coloured engraved map. Paper, dissected and mounted on linen, folding into protective cloth covered boards. Label for 'Platt's Stationery Warehouse' on inside cover.

The map includes the names of Adelaide areas that have long since disappeared, including Tenterden, Miners' Village, Tam O'Shanter (known as the Tam O'Shanter Belt), Twickenham, Cowandilla, and Hammersmith. Some quite familiar places carry their original names, such as Le Fevre's Peninsula, Albert Town (that became Alberton), Queens Town, Edwards Town, the Great North Road (now Main North Road), the Great Eastern Road (now Glen Osmond Road), and the River Thames at Glenelg (now the Patawalonga). The map also shows the proposed route of the tramway to Mr Strangways' at the North Arm, Port Adelaide; the Government Farm; and the Montacute Copper Mine, Riverside Silver Mine, and Victoria Gold Mine. The only watercourses labeled on the map are the Dry Creek, Brownhill Creek, the River Torrens, and the River Sturt. 'Fuller's' is shown and labeled on the Great North Road at the Dry Creek. This would probably have been the 'Bird in Hand' public house, which John Fuller had taken over as licencee from John Stuckey on 12 June 1848. Fuller passed on the licence to John Merryweather on 11 September 1849, helping to date this map between these two dates. It is worth noting that Fuller was living at the Dry Creek as early as 1847, so further research is required to determine if Fuller was perhaps an unlicenced victualler prior to 1848. This seems unlikely, as John Hill was running the 'Dry Creek Inn' on the road to Gawler Town from at least 14 August 1844. On that particular day, a crowd had gathered at the Inn to cheer on Captain Sturt's expedition to search for the inland sea, as they headed up the Great North Road.

Platts's Stationery Warehouse Label

The proposal for construction of a railway from Port Adelaide to the City of Adelaide was first announced on 6 January 1849 (South Australian Register, Saturday, 6 January 1849, page 2 column a), and by 23 May a proposed route to Mr Strangways' at Newport, North Arm, was being discussed (South Australian Register, Wednesday 23 May 1849, page 3 column c). Given the information above, it seems likely that this map can be dated between 23 May 1849 and 11 September 1849.

The map was first advertised for sale in The South Australian newspaper on Tuesday 12 March 1850 (page 3, column c):
Important Information To The Public. ------ JUST Published, a New Zincographic Map of the Country Sections in the Vicinity of Adelaide; the largest and most correct ever issued. Price Seven Shillings, to be obtained at PLATT'S Library    Auction Mart Portico, and       Hindley-street.
Six advertisements for the map subsequently appeared on page 1 of The South Australian between 15 March 1850 and 5 April 1850, with the name of Platts's Library correctly shown in the ad. A small article on the map was published in The South Australian on Friday 15 March 1850 (page 2, column c):
LOCAL NEWS. ------ MAP OF ADELAIDE AND THE SURROUNDING DISTRICTS. Platts, Adelaide, Hailes, London. -- We have much pleasure in recommending to the attention of the business community this new map, which appears to us the most complete yet published. The whole of the sections within ten miles of Adelaide are accurately delineated, with the localities of the following villages and places of note : -- Cowandilla, Richmond, North Richmond, Twickenham, Plympton, Hammersmith, Edwards Town, Glenelg, River Thames, Marion, Brighton, Seacombe, Marino, Unley, Brownhill Creek, Mitcham, Government Farm, Great Eastern Road, Kensington, Mackgill, Riversedge, Silver, Montacute, Copper, and Victoria Gold Mines, Dry Creek, Great North Road, Prospect, Bowden, Hindmarsh, Thebarton, Tam O'Shanter, Alberton, Queen's Town, Miners' Village, Port Adelaide, Lefevre's Peninsula, North Arm, Torrens, and Garden Islands. The map will supply a desideratum long wanted by the public.
The following dates relate to the first known reference, survey, or purchase of the Country Sections bearing a name on this map. The date of 1848 for the establishment of Queen's Town further supports the 1849 date of the map.
Section No.	Place	Named or Established	Notes (Coming Soon)
Section 1	Thebarton	Surveyed July 1839
Section 51	Edwards Town	November 1838
Section 52	Hammersmith	By May 1845	First newspaper reference in the South Australian Register, Saturday, 17 May 1845 (page 3 column c). This is an early record of Hammersmith in Section 52. Hammersmith was later also associated with a portion of the adjacent Section 92, owned by Henry Hudd.
Section 90	Richmond	1839
Section 92	Cowandilla	1840
Sections 94 & 95	North Richmond	By June 1841	See the South Australian Register, Saturday 12 June 1841 (page 4 column a)
Section 103	Twickenham	1839
Section 108	Plympton	By 1840 as Plympton Hamlets
Section 117	Marion	November 1838
Section 200	Seacombe	By April 1843	See the South Australian Register, Saturday 29 April 1843 (page 3 column a)
Section 221	Goodwood	Blocks sold in early 1840s
Sections 236, 237 & 238	Brighton	1839
Section 238	Unley	By 1840
Section 244	Marino	By 1840
Section 248	Mitcham	By c1840
Section 285	Magill	Surveyed October 1838
Section 285	Payneham	Advertised October 1838
Section 289	Kensington	Surveyed November 1838
Section 353	Hindmarsh	18 July 1838
Section 354	Bowden	By July 1839	See the South Australian Register, Saturday, 27 July 1839 (page 2 column b)
Section 374	Prospect	1838
Sections 379 & 392	Tam O'Shanter	1838
Section 409	Tenterden	By 1840
Section 423	Albert Town	7 March 1839
Section 425	Miner's Village	By February 1845	See the South Australian, Friday, 14 February 1845 (page 3 column c)
Section 443	Queen's Town	By June 1848	Partially surveyed and offered for sale by 22 June 1848. (The South Australian newspaper, Friday 23 June 1848, page 3, column d)
Section 5521	Anstey	By 1840s
Sections 5537 & 5538	Riversedge	By January 1847	See the South Australian, Tuesday, 19 January 1847 (page 5 column c)
Sections 5537 & 5538	Silver Mine	TBA
Section 5586	Montacute Copper Mine	TBA
Section 5597	Victoria Gold Mine	TBA
N/A	Glenelg	1836
N/A	Holdfast Bay	1836
N/A	Mount Lofty	23 March 1802
N/A	River Thames	TBA

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