The Ballot for Glenelg
South Australia's first 'Secondary Town'

The main Primary Sources used in compiling this site are:-

Treasury Building Strongroom

• MapThe District of Adelaide South Australia as Divided into Country Sections from the Trigonometrical Surveys of Colonel Light (John Arrowsmith 1839)

State Records (formerly The Public Records Office of S.A.)

• Gawler's Despatches (GRG48/4)
• Lands Dept Records (GRG35) - various on 'green slips'
• Plan of The Township of Glenelg 1855 (GRG35)

The Royal Geographical Society of South Australia Inc

• Colonial Office Correspondence 1841
• Plan showing First Six Divisions (A to F) of Light's Survey of SA (Printed House of Commons 1841)
• The Port & Town of Adelaide from a Drawing by Colonel Light
  (John Gliddon 1837)

Books

• South Australia What's in a Name?
  by Rodney Cockburn 1990 ed.

Ballot for Glenelg (Prints 3 pages)
Bibliography & Site Info (Prints 1 page)

IMAGES - Sources
- Sketch of Gawler - I. Crilly (from History of South Australia)
by John Blacket 1911
- Map facsimile - K. Crilly

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