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Town Centre Heritage Trail 3km Walk Heritage Trail Key Victor Harbor has a rich and diverse heritage that is highly 16 valued by residents and visitors alike. START Start - Visitor Information Centre This self-guided heritage trail will take you on a journey to discover the stories of these significant buildings and how they Finish - No. 38 Shannons’ Store 38 have contributed to making Victor Harbor what it is today. EYRE TERRACE Trail Length - 3kms = 1.5 hours 17 19 Harbourmaster and Deputy Police Station and Plaques - The image left is an 21 18 1 20 example of one of the plaques you Collector Customs’ House Courthouse HILL STREET OCEAN STREET will find on each of the buildings 2 Goods’ Shed 21 Photographic Studio Toilets - Various toilets are located 22 along the trail 20 3 Railway Station 22 Police Station 23 4 Post and Telegraph Station 23 English, Scottish and Australia Bank 15 5 Davies’ Boot and Shoe Store 24 Savings Bank of SA TORRENS STREET 14 24 26 25 Victor Harbor CORAL STREET 6 Shop and Residence 25 4 Times Office 34 35 13 33 Victor Harbor Primary 7 Bakers’ Shop 26 5 School 32 36 3 37 6 8 Refreshment Rooms 27 St Augustine’s Anglican 12 7 Church FLINDERS PARADE Newland Memorial 31 11 8 9 Shop and Residence 28 Uniting Church Hall 38 9 Newland Memorial 10 10 Battye Store 29 27 Uniting Church Soldiers BURKE STREET Memorial 11 Hairdresser’s Shop 30 Butchers’ Shop Gardens Commercial Bank of 12 31 Gertymore 30 2 Australia ALBERT PLACE 13 Grosvenor Hotel 32 Headmaster’s House WILLS ST 29 14 Bank of South Australia 33 Town Hall 28 1 15 Warringa 34 The Institute ESPLANADE 16 Tennis Clubhouse 35 Bell’s Store START 17 Railway Cottage 36 Ozone Theatre 18 Emohruo 37 Coffee Palace 19 Carrickalinga 38 Shannons’ Store B73330/10 B20992 B21245 documenting the town’s heritage. town’s the documenting of buildings and structures around Victor Harbor, Harbor, Victor around structures and buildings of These small blue plaques are placed on a number number a on placed are plaques blue small These the City of Victor Harbor’s interpretive plaque project. project. plaque interpretive Harbor’s Victor of City the town has evolved. These stories are shared through through shared are stories These evolved. has town Victor Harbor’s built history tells a story of how the the how of story a tells history built Harbor’s Victor by an early Surveyor General of South Australia. South of General Surveyor early an by Australia, is said to be a result of spelling errors made made errors spelling of result a be to said is Australia, a number of other geographical locations within South South within locations geographical other of number a the city is spelt Victor Harbor. This spelling, found in in found spelling, This Harbor. Victor spelt is city the with a ‘u’ in modern Australian English, the name of of name the English, Australian modern in ‘u’ a with 1921. Despite the fact that harbour is normally spelt spelt normally is harbour that fact the Despite 1921. The town’s name was changed to Victor Harbor in in Harbor Victor to changed was name town’s The of the horse drawn tramway from Goolwa. from tramway drawn horse the of on the shores of Victor Harbor, following the extension extension the following Harbor, Victor of shores the on It was 1863 when the town of Port Victor was laid out out laid was Victor Port of town the when 1863 was It Hart, who later became Premier of South Australia. South of Premier became later who Hart, station was managed for some time by Captain John John Captain by time some for managed was station near the point opposite Granite Island. The whaling whaling The Island. Granite opposite point the near Head (commonly known as The Bluff) and the other other the and Bluff) The as known (commonly Head stations were established in the area, one at Rosetta Rosetta at one area, the in established were stations ship. It was around this same period that two whaling whaling two that period same this around was It ship. waters in the lee of the island Victor Harbor after his his after Harbor Victor island the of lee the in waters mid-journey and its captain named the sheltered sheltered the named captain its and mid-journey In 1837, the HMS Victor anchored off Granite Island Island Granite off anchored Victor HMS the 1837, In bay being named, Encounter Bay. Encounter named, being bay and French explorer Nicolas Baudin, resulting in the the in resulting Baudin, Nicolas explorer French and the historic encounter occurred, a meeting of Flinders Flinders of meeting a occurred, encounter historic the Victor Harbor Victor Matthew Flinders in 1802. It was in these waters that that waters these in was It 1802. in Flinders Matthew of SA, City of Victor Harbor and the National Trust. National the and Harbor Victor of City SA, of Victor Harbor sits, was discovered by British explorer explorer British by discovered was sits, Harbor Victor Images used in this brochure are from State State from are brochure this in used Images Library Library and Ngarrindjeri people, Encounter Bay, on which which on Bay, Encounter people, Ngarrindjeri and Heritage Trail Heritage Ramindjeri the of home Traditionally, destination. www.victor.sa.gov.au Web centre on the peninsula, and a favoured summer holiday holiday summer favoured a and peninsula, the on centre [email protected] Email south of the Adelaide CBD. It is the largest population population largest the is It CBD. Adelaide the of south Australia’s Fleurieu Peninsula, about 80 kilometres kilometres 80 about Peninsula, Fleurieu Australia’s PO Box 11, Victor Harbor SA 5211 SA Harbor Victor 11, Box PO Postal Town Centre Town South on located is Harbor Victor of town seaside The 8551 0501 8551 Fax 0500 8551 e hon P History Town Centre Heritage Trail 3km Walk Heritage Trail Key Victor Harbor has a rich and diverse heritage that is highly 16 valued by residents and visitors alike. START Start - Visitor Information Centre This self-guided heritage trail will take you on a journey to discover the stories of these significant buildings and how they Finish - No. 38 Shannons’ Store 38 have contributed to making Victor Harbor what it is today. EYRE TERRACE Trail Length - 3kms = 1.5 hours 17 19 Harbourmaster and Deputy Police Station and Plaques - The image left is an 21 18 1 20 example of one of the plaques you Collector Customs’ House Courthouse HILL STREET OCEAN STREET will find on each of the buildings 2 Goods’ Shed 21 Photographic Studio Toilets - Various toilets are located 22 along the trail 20 3 Railway Station 22 Police Station 23 4 Post and Telegraph Station 23 English, Scottish and Australia Bank 15 5 Davies’ Boot and Shoe Store 24 Savings Bank of SA TORRENS STREET 14 24 26 25 Victor Harbor CORAL STREET 6 Shop and Residence 25 4 Times Office 34 35 13 33 Victor Harbor Primary 7 Bakers’ Shop 26 5 School 32 36 3 37 6 8 Refreshment Rooms 27 St Augustine’s Anglican 12 7 Church FLINDERS PARADE Newland Memorial 31 11 8 9 Shop and Residence 28 Uniting Church Hall 38 9 Newland Memorial 10 10 Battye Store 29 27 Uniting Church Soldiers BURKE STREET Memorial 11 Hairdresser’s Shop 30 Butchers’ Shop Gardens Commercial Bank of 12 31 Gertymore 30 2 Australia ALBERT PLACE 13 Grosvenor Hotel 32 Headmaster’s House WILLS ST 29 14 Bank of South Australia 33 Town Hall 28 1 15 Warringa 34 The Institute ESPLANADE 16 Tennis Clubhouse 35 Bell’s Store START 17 Railway Cottage 36 Ozone Theatre 18 Emohruo 37 Coffee Palace 19 Carrickalinga 38 Shannons’ Store B73330/10 B21245 B20992 documenting the town’s heritage. town’s the documenting of buildings and structures around Victor Harbor, Harbor, Victor around structures and buildings of These small blue plaques are placed on a number number a on placed are plaques blue small These the City of Victor Harbor’s interpretive plaque project. project. plaque interpretive Harbor’s Victor of City the town has evolved. These stories are shared through through shared are stories These evolved. has town Victor Harbor’s built history tells a story of how the the how of story a tells history built Harbor’s Victor by an early Surveyor General of South Australia. South of General Surveyor early an by Australia, is said to be a result of spelling errors made made errors spelling of result a be to said is Australia, a number of other geographical locations within South South within locations geographical other of number a the city is spelt Victor Harbor. This spelling, found in in found spelling, This Harbor. Victor spelt is city the with a ‘u’ in modern Australian English, the name of of name the English, Australian modern in ‘u’ a with 1921. Despite the fact that harbour is normally spelt spelt normally is harbour that fact the Despite 1921. The town’s name was changed to Victor Harbor in in Harbor Victor to changed was name town’s The of the horse drawn tramway from Goolwa. from tramway drawn horse the of on the shores of Victor Harbor, following the extension extension the following Harbor, Victor of shores the on It was 1863 when the town of Port Victor was laid out out laid was Victor Port of town the when 1863 was It Hart, who later became Premier of South Australia.