Beaumont, South Australia
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Beaumont Adelaide, South Australia |
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Population: | 2,269 (2001 census) | ||||||||||||
Postcode: | 5066 | ||||||||||||
Property Value: | AUD $510,000 (2005) | ||||||||||||
LGA: | City of Burnside | ||||||||||||
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Beaumont is a suburb of Adelaide in the City of Burnside. Founded as a purpose-built village by Sir Samuel Davenport in 1848, it initially struggled due to high land prices in the area. However, with Adelaide's inevitable expansion residents eventually settled. The early village had quite a cosmopolitan flavour - although predominantly Anglo-Saxon like most of Australia at this point, many of Beaumont's early residents were veterans of the British Navy or Army or had lived in other countries for some time. Edward Burton Gleeson, the founder of the Mid North town of Clare originally owned a farm within the boundaries of Beaumont which he name Gleeville in the early 1840s. He became bankrupt, sold his holdings to Davenport in 1842 and later moved to the Clare Valley region.[1]
The original village was centered around a small park known as the "Beaumont Common" (or to residents simply as "The Common"). The suburb has now expanded south-east in the direction of the hills however, with newer developments now on the face of the Adelaide Hills.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Cockburn, Rodney (1999). South Australia - What's in a Name?. Axiom Publishing. ISBN 0-9592519-1-X.
[edit] References
- The Paddocks Beneath, Elizabeth Warburton
- Australian Bureau of Statistics
- Cockburn, Rodney (1999) South Australia - What's in a Name? Axiom Publishing
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