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Lochiel Park – then and now
prior to 2004 The Lochiel Park property once belonged to a succession of orchardists and market gardeners, the first of which was Campbell. He originally built Lochend House which is now owned and maintained by the Campbelltown Council. The two storey Lochiel Park House was originally built by James Mundy in the 1850s. In 1947,…
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Grey box and SA blue gum woodland
The grey box and SA blue gum woodland occupied the footslopes bordered to the north by the Torrens River catchment and to First Creek of the Torrens to the south. It covered around 50% of the cities of Campbelltown, almost the entirety of Norwood, Payneham, and St. Peters, and the northern portion of Burnside to…
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Forests and woodlands of the Eastern Suburbs of Adelaide
The eastern suburbs of Adelaide are located along the foothill slopes of the Adelaide Hills. Before European colonisation, this area was covered in open forest and woodland. Settlement happened so rapidly that there wasn’t a consistent record of the type of native flora which pre-existed the cultivation of the foothill slopes. In 1996, Darrell Kraehenbuehl’s…