Port Adelaide Enfield Public Library Service Local History Collection, South Australia

Port Adelaide Enfield Public Library Service Local History Collection, South Australia

• Port Adelaide Local History Collection (until 1996)
• Enfield Local History Collection (until 1996)

• Municipal

Port Adelaide is an historic area which was central to the colonisation of South Australia dating right back to its inception in 1836 when Colonel William Light first sailed up the Port River. Port Adelaide has been the gateway to trade and commerce in South Australia and the first contact with South Australia for thousands of emigrants when they arrived by ship.

Enfield was predominantly a farming area, with fertile country along the River Torrens and wheat and grain fields in its northern reaches. The area boasts Sunnybrae Farm, the site of the first waterborne sewerage system in Australia; Yatala Gaol; the Sir Ross and Keith Smith England to Australia flight landing site and Klemzig, where German immigrants fleeing persecution in Prussia, established a village in 1838. Post World War II immigration saw the area change from agricultural to residential.

In 1996 the City of Enfield amalgamated with the City of Port Adelaide to become the City of Port Adelaide Enfield.

Material related to the City of Port Adelaide Enfield and also collect town histories of South Australia.

Local history resources include:

• Published and unpublished resources relevant to the area
• Published histories of other localities in South Australia
• Port Adelaide Rate assessment, 1875-1902
• Enfield Rate assessment books (microfiche), 1868-1993
• Index to births, deaths, and marriages in South Australia
• Birth, death and marriage certificates for the District of Port Adelaide
• Cemetery records
• Messenger newspapers, 1971- present
• South Australia Government Gazettes, 1843-1998 (some exceptions)
• South Australian Police Gazettes, 1862-1947
• South Australian Passenger lists, 1836–1851.

Open Monday to Wednesday 9.30am-5.30pm
Thursday 9.30am-8pm
Friday 10am-5.30pm
Saturday 9.30am-4pm.

Revised 20 March 2018

• Built Environment (Thematic area)
• Medio ambiente (Thematic area)
• Genealogical (Thematic area)
• Geography (Thematic area)
• Immigration (Thematic area)
• Indigenous (Thematic area)
• Local Studies (Thematic area)
• Populations (Thematic area)