NORFOLK RD NORFOLK TO WESTFIELD MARION WESTFIELD TO Yesterday’s Child Yesterday’s book, Western’s Margaret KEY Approximate Distance Approximate Stop Bus Trail walking/cycling Park Linear Sturt Trail Heritage 100m 50m 0m were inspired by by inspired were Little Marion Little sculptures sculptures TO WARRIPARINGA TO DID YOU KNOW... YOU DID SHOPS ON FINNISS STREET FINNISS ON SHOPS 24 20 FORMER POLICE STATION POLICE FORMER 23 E R H S E Y C R T BOYLE ST MARION HISTORIC VILLAGE MUSEUM VILLAGE HISTORIC MARION 22a 19 WESLEYAN CHAPEL WESLEYAN 22 FINNISS ST FINNISS JOHN SHEARING HOME SHEARING JOHN 21 21 CULTURAL CENTRE CULTURAL TO MARION MARION TO CHARLESWORTH NUTS CHARLESWORTH 20 THREDGOLD’S BIRTHING HOUSE BIRTHING THREDGOLD’S 19 CHURCH CRES P HERSEY WORKMEN COTTAGES WORKMEN HERSEY A N 18 K I N A G V E EARLY SETTLERS’ COTTAGE SETTLERS’ EARLY 17 HISTORIC COTTAGE HISTORIC 16 22 18 TILED HOPSCOTCH TILED 22a TOWNSHIP RD GEORGE STREET RESERVE, LITTLE MARION WAITING & & WAITING MARION LITTLE RESERVE, STREET GEORGE 15 ADRIAN CRT ADRIAN LARKDALE AV 17 LIGHT SQUARE & TILED BENCHES TILED & SQUARE LIGHT 14 V J O A S E T P H S N ALMOND GROVE ALMOND 13 E I F 23 A LAUREL COTTAGE & GENERAL STORE GENERAL & COTTAGE LAUREL C 12 C E S STURT RIVER & LITTLE MARION PONDERING MARION LITTLE & RIVER STURT 15 11 24 16 GEORGE ST GEORGE ORIGINAL MARION INN MARION ORIGINAL 10 1 3 WESTERN FAMILY WELL & LITTLE MARION PEERING MARION LITTLE & WELL FAMILY WESTERN 2 9 Sam Oster. 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FORESTERS’ FRIENDLY SOCIETY HALL SOCIETY FRIENDLY FORESTERS’ 7 LIGHT LIGHT 14 importance to The Village Village The to importance 4 SQU A RE WATER PUMP WATER 6 NIXON NIXON 12 ST JANE ST of sites and stories local 5 of artworks that celebrate celebrate that artworks of FINNISS STREET BRIDGE STREET FINNISS 5 6 FINNISS ST FINNISS the design of a number number a of design the 11 RAILWAY STATIONS RAILWAY HERSEY FARM HERSEY 13 4 Walk and contributed to to contributed and Walk & CLOVELLY PARK PARK CLOVELLY & TO MITCHELL PARK PARK MITCHELL TO INTERCHANGE ST ANN’S CHAPEL ANN’S ST and designed the Heritage Heritage the designed and 3 MARKET ST TO OAKLANDS OAKLANDS TO O L I P H A N T community researched researched community A V ST ANN’S CHAPEL BELL CHAPEL ANN’S ST 2 7 writer and artists, the the artists, and writer N ANNIE DOOLAN’S COTTAGE & LITTLE MARION SKIPPING MARION LITTLE & COTTAGE DOOLAN’S ANNIE 1 Working closely with a a with closely Working 8 LEGEND ARTWORKS JA COB ST COB MARION RD PARK LINEAR RIVER WETLAND VIA STURT STURT VIA WETLAND 10 TO MARION RAILWAY STATION RAILWAY MARION TO TO OAKLANDS OAKLANDS TO 9 ALISON AVE Marion Historic Village Heritage Walk Heritage Village Historic Marion INTRODUCTION MARION HISTORIC VILLAGE The area we now call Marion Historic Village was affectionately known to locals as ‘The Marion’. Land which was WALK DETAILS destined to be marked out as Marion Village had been, throughout time, The trail is an easy one-hour walk of approximately two kilometres, accessible for bicycles, prams and wheelchairs. inhabited by the Kaurna Aboriginal Toilets, playground, barbeque facilities and parking can be Heritage Walk people of the Adelaide Plains who found at George St Reserve. called it ‘Warriparinga’ - a windy place GETTING TO THE WALK BY BUS by a creek. M44 Bus between City and Marion Shopping Centre. Alight at Stop 26 on Finniss Street We are fortunate to be accompanied on our walk by the words and memories of people who knew and GETTING TO THE WALK BY TRAIN loved ‘The Marion’, whose ancestors planted and Train Between City and Seaford. tended the first almonds, vines and market gardens, Alight at Marion Station (then approx 20 min walk) OR or made bricks from local clay to build beautiful Alight at Oaklands Station (then approx 25 min walk) buildings, some of which survive to enrich our lives. PUBLIC TRANSPORT INFORMATION It is the memories of these people that help us learn Call Adelaide Metro Info Line 1300 311 108 more about the history of European settlement in this district as we begin to see the village through REFERENCES their eyes. Some sites on the Marion Historic Village Dolling, Allison 1981, The History of Marion on the Sturt, Peacock Heritage Walk date back to the establishment of the Publications, Frewville SA. The Marion Historic Village village in 1838, just two years after the colony was THE MARION Western, Margaret 2008, Yesterday’s Child, Elite Press, 1/57 Project has enabled founded, while others refer to more recent history. HISTORIC Norfolk Road, Marion SA. residents, local businesses, The original village was surveyed in November 1838 VILLAGE PROJECT community groups and THESE BOOKS MAY BE PURCHASED FROM by the survey team of Light, Finniss & Co. It was a Council to work together Gallery M Marion Cultural Centre private township of 32 hectares, on Land section towards common goals. 287 Diagonal Road Oaklands Park Tel 8375 6785 DID YOU KNOW... 117. Its proprietors were Henry Nixon and Boyle Through the creation of This walking guide was researched and written by local residents Travers Finniss. Finniss was later to become the first On the Marion Historic the Heritage Walk, art with support from the City of Marion. The Marion Historic Village Premier of South Australia. Village Heritage Walk workshops and many Project has been a collaborative project between residents of the community events and each historic site includes Land section 118 was granted to Edward John Eyre, City of Marion and the Council. a tiled marker which is who went on to explore Lake Eyre and the Eyre celebrations, the Light community has experienced highlighted with a two- Peninsula. It was later divided into large allotments greater pride and belonging CITY OF MARION tone concrete ‘survey line’ and sold as the village of Elmwood. in their neighbourhood. PO Box 21, Oaklands Park, South Australia 5046 crossing the footpath. The This project has broadened 245 Sturt Road, Sturt, South Australia survey lines refer to the the understanding and T +61 08 8375 6600 laying out of the village of appreciation of the unique F +61 08 8375 6699 Marion by Light, Finniss & history of the Marion Village marion.sa.gov.au Co. One end of each survey precinct. line points towards Light Square, Marion. Brochure published 2017 Marion Historic Village Heritage Walk 1 ANNIE DOOLAN’S COTTAGE & LITTLE MARION SKIPPING 8 FINNISS STREET & LITTLE MARION WELCOMING 13 ALMOND GROVE 19 THREDGOLD’S BIRTHING HOUSE This cottage was built in 1876 as a convent for the teaching Boyle Travers Finniss and Henry Nixon were employed in Colonel Only this small almond grove remains in Marion Village today. This home of Alf and May Thredgold was once part of 4 Sisters of St Joseph founded by Mary McKillop (who became William Light’s surveying team. When Light resigned his post The beauty of Marion Village during almond blossom time acres on which Alf ran a brick-kiln. May, being one of the Saint Mary McKillop). Later, the Doolan family lived in of Surveyor-General, they formed Light, was marketed with great success by South Australia’s Tourist Village midwives, used the left-hand front room (as you face the cottage which has been affectionately named after Finniss and Co., which surveyed the Village Bureau between 1934 and 1955 when buses were used to the home) for delivering Annie, who was the last member of the family to live there. of Marion on their land grant. In November bring tourists to see the almond blossom. Margaret Western, babies. Midwives played The building is currently 1838 they offered for sale one-acre writer of Yesterday’s Child, a vital in this era when managed by the Friends allotments in the village for six pounds recalls, “Some people don’t doctors were some distance of Annie Doolan’s Cottage each. Nixon’s son, George, sold some of the understand that next year’s away and transport and and displays a schoolroom remaining allotments after bringing them almonds depend on the communications were both of the 1870s, a kitchen of under the Torrens Title System in 1870. blossom and they tear and slow. the 1940s and model of Little Marion Welcoming by Gerry McMahon welcomes you to twist at the trees so they 20 Marion Village in 1949. The Marion Village. Farm gates like this reproduction were very can take home some of the CHARLESWORTH NUTS Little Marion Skipping by Gerry McMahon. The sculpture common in the district. The names of local brick makers in the flowers.” Herb and Doris Charlesworth of Clarence Gardens is of Little Marion skipping in what was most likely the village are inscribed on bricks embedded in the ground. purchased a nut stall in the Central Market in 1934. Their 14 LIGHT SQUARE & TILED BENCHES playground of the school. son Chappy took over the market business in the 1950s. 9 WESTERN FAMILY WELL & LITTLE MARION PEERING The name of this square recalls the contribution made by Colonel By the 1970s his two sons Mark and Brett joined him. 2 ST ANN’S CHAPEL BELL Local resident, Peter Western said, “This well was about 26 William Light’s team of partners in the firm of Light, Finniss As production increased Chappy looked for a new site It was a special occasion when the new bell for St Ann’s metres deep and then at the bottom of this you put a bore down.