Celebrating South Australia

This brief history of the Aboriginal place Murrabinna (also called Blackford Reserve) was written by Peter Bell and Susan Marsden as an assessment of the reserve’s heritage value in the Kingston Heritage Survey (report 2008). Bell and Marsden recommended that Blackford Reserve be provisionally entered in the South Australian Heritage Register, and this was one of several State Heritage recommendations from that survey considered by the South Australian Heritage Council’s Register Committee in 2010.

Bell and Marsden carried out the survey in 2005-2007 for the District Council of Kingston in the South-East region of South Australia. The main aims were to assess European (and post-settlement Indigenous) cultural heritage resources in the town and district and to recommend places for listing in State and local heritage registers. The final report Kingston Heritage Survey is unpublished but is a public document endorsed in principle by the Council. The authors acknowledge and thank Kingston District Council and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources for permission to reproduce this history from the Kingston Heritage Survey.