Mount Pleasant

South Australia

- our history

We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land, the Peramangk people, who traversed this country in days now gone. We pay our respect to their Elders, past, present and emerging.

This is the history of the former Mount Pleasant District Council area which includes Eden Valley, Springton, Mount Pleasant, Tungkillo and Palmer

The township of Mount Pleasant is central to many regions and has been a place to pass through from settlement to today...

this website tells you the history

Timeline

For catalogue items search here

ehive.com/collections/204344/mount-pleasant-district-history-room

For more up-to-date and current information on this region please visit

https://www.mtpleasantbeat.org

Mount Pleasant is situated 55 kms north-east of Adelaide, and is now a part of The Barossa Council area.

We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land, the Peramangk people, and pay respect to the elders, past, present and emerging.

Indigenous history is scarce for Mount Pleasant and the surrounds of the town, but there were Indigenous people who lived and travelled the country along the range close to Springton, Eden Valley, onwards to the Barossa region and meeting with those from Mannum and the Murraylands. We belong to Peramangk country.

Settlers traversed the region from as early as 1839, and settlement began here from 1842 when three families took up land in the area – James Phillis with his family, Henry Bushell and his wife, Charlotte (nee Phillis, sister to James), and Henry Giles and his wife, Mary Ann (nee Tippett).