District Council of Belvidere

District Council of Belvidere
South Australia
District Council of Belvidere; South Australia
	Hundred of Belvidere 1899
	District Council of Belvidere
Coordinates	34°24′S 139°01′E / 34.400°S 139.017°E
Established	1866
Abolished	1932
Council seat	Dimchurch (until 1875); (from 1875);
	LGAs around District Council of Belvidere:

The District Council of Belvidere was a local government area in South Australia. It was created to provide local government in the Hundred of Belvidere on 13 December 1866 and combined into the District Council of Kapunda on 12 May 1932.^[1]

The boundaries of the district were defined by the boundaries of surrounding hundreds, but enclosed the Hundred of Belvidere. It was bounded by the Hundred of Nuriootpa, Hundred of Moorooroo, the County of Eyre, the Hundred of Julia Creek, River Light and Hundred of Light.^[2]

Messrs. James Macnamara, William Kickebush, William Flavel, David Fyfe, and Mungo Kerr were the first District Councillors for the District of Belvidere.^[2]

The settlement at Belvidere may have been a consequence of the opening of Belvidere Mine,^[3] a marble mine adjacent to a crossing of the River Light (now McCarthy Bridge) and was likely named Belvidere by association to either the Hundred of Belvidere, the land administration division on the south east side of the river crossing in which the main settlement lay, or the Belvidere Range which overlooks the mine and west of the hundred.

References[]

^ ^a ^b Marsden, Susan (2012). "A History of South Australian Councils to 1936" (PDF). Adelaide: Local Government Association of South Australia. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
^ ^a ^b "District of Belvidere (No. 52)" (PDF). South Australian Government Gazette. Government of South Australia. 13 December 1866. p. 1257–1258. Retrieved 17 December 2021 – via AustLII.
^ "Local News". South Australian. Vol. XI, no. 952. South Australia. 23 June 1848. p. 2. Retrieved 1 December 2017 – via National Library of Australia. NEW MINE ON SECTION 1599.–This promising mine, we understand, is situated about sixty miles from Adelaide, on a section of land containing 642 acres (purchased by Messrs. M. I Smith and P. Levi, for selves and others at the public sale on Monday last), situated near the Ranges, between the Rivers Light and Gilbert, in a rich mining country. We have seen specimens of the carbonate and sulphurets of lead ores, which have a remarkable rich appearance, and we hear copper has also been found. The mine, we believe, has been named the "Belvidere." [...] Mr Finke started this day with four miners to the scene of operations.

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[history-1] Marsden, Susan (2012). "A History of South Australian Councils to 1936" (PDF). Adelaide: Local Government Association of South Australia. Retrieved 17 December 2021.

[gazette-2] "District of Belvidere (No. 52)" (PDF). South Australian Government Gazette. Government of South Australia. 13 December 1866. p. 1257–1258. Retrieved 17 December 2021 – via AustLII.

[3] "Local News". South Australian. Vol. XI, no. 952. South Australia. 23 June 1848. p. 2. Retrieved 1 December 2017 – via National Library of Australia. NEW MINE ON SECTION 1599.–This promising mine, we understand, is situated about sixty miles from Adelaide, on a section of land containing 642 acres (purchased by Messrs. M. I Smith and P. Levi, for selves and others at the public sale on Monday last), situated near the Ranges, between the Rivers Light and Gilbert, in a rich mining country. We have seen specimens of the carbonate and sulphurets of lead ores, which have a remarkable rich appearance, and we hear copper has also been found. The mine, we believe, has been named the "Belvidere." [...] Mr Finke started this day with four miners to the scene of operations.

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