Local History Collections

Historical House The City of Port Adelaide Enfield supports two Local History Collections. One Collection is located in the Port Adelaide Library and contains material relating to the former Port Adelaide Council area. The other Collection is located in the Enfield Library - Council Office and contains material relating to the former Enfield Council area.

Local History information is provided in various formats including:

photographs
articles
original papers
newspapers
newspaper database
books
videos
oral histories
maps
cemetery records
BDM records
CD books

Suburbs and Subdivisions within the City of Port Adelaide Enfield

Originally, grantees who were sold or allocated land, subidivided and named their property as they wished. In the 1940's it was decided to rationalise the number of subdivisions as there were too many. Councils were asked to consider and formally submit suburb names. The names were formally accepted by the Nomenclature Committee in 1951. The document below is compiled from information gathered from Mannings Place Names of South Australia : Aaron Creek to Zion Hill and lists each of the suburbs of the City of Port Adelaide Enfield and the subdivisions which have occured within the suburbs.

Suburbs and subdivisions within the City of Port Adelaide Enfield(117 kb)

Please click on the links to the right of this screen to read more about each Local History Collection.

For further details please contact our Local History Officer:

Enfield Library - Council Office: (08) 8405 6530 or via Local History Officer
Port Adelaide Library: (08) 8405 6580 or via Local History Officer