Wesleyan Chapel

A Wesleyan Chapel was under construction in 1859, with mention it was soon to open in October of that year. This was positioned between Mount Pleasant and Tungkillo, with a waterhole in a nearby creek used as a baptismal font. There were services being held in 1863 but by 1864 the wattle and daub chapel had become dilapidated and so a proposal for a new chapel was being discussed.

Land more central in the township of Totness was procured in 1865 with £90 raised for the purpose. This is now Townsend House, on Showground Road. Here a tent was erected for the purpose of arranged services and again mention of the construction of a building in 1867, on land that had long been owned by the congregation. Stone was collected and in the years between 1864 and 1867 the construction fund had only resulted in £130 being raised for the purpose, with £325 left in debt. Great credit is due to the contractors, both in wood and stone work, for carrying out so efficiently the plans of the building, which is now one of the ornaments of the township. ... The chapel is most eminent'y a first rate sounding one, the softer passages being heard as clearly as those of greater power. ...

South Australian Chronicle and Weekly Mail (Adelaide, SA : 1868 - 1881), Saturday 31 October 1868, page 10

The public services of worship have been discontinued at the chapel between Mount Pleasant and Tungkillo, owing to its disadvantageous situation.

In 1915, this chapel was purchased in the names of George Thorburn Melrose, Henry Arthur Giles and Francis Thomson, possibly as a premise for the Mount Pleasant Institute, who had been using the premises for such. In October 1928 Robert Thomson Melrose, James Charles Herriot and Franklin Dewell took over the premises as a Public Library which in December 1928 was then purchased by the Presbyterian Church who owned the premises until 1946 when it was taken over by the Mount Pleasant Agricultural, Horticultural and Floricultural Society.