12 May 1853 District of Mitcham By Alison Painter.

Metropolitan Adelaide: a short history By Susan Marsden.
This essay first appeared as chapter 7 of Jenny Walker (ed.), South Australia’s Heritage, Department of Environment & Planning, Adelaide, 1986, pp. 87-100. It is republished here with permission, but without the illustrations or the inserted boxes prepared by Iris Iwanicki that are in the original.