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  2. Emanuel Cohen (businessman) - Wikipedia

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    He founded the Adelaide Central Auction Mart (also known as Adelaide Central Mart), opposite White's Rooms, King William Street, in 1876 selling the business to D. W. Melvin. [2] In 1877 he built a three-storeyed building at "Muirhead's Corner" of King William and Hindley streets, [3] for a time tenanted by the "Monster Clothing Palace". Cohen ...

  3. Government House, Adelaide - Wikipedia

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    The earliest part of the house to be built was the east wing of the present building. It was completed and occupied in May 1840. Government House is thus probably the second oldest continuously occupied house in the State, after Walkley cottage in St Mark's College, Pennington Terrace, North Adelaide, which was first occupied in mid-1839. When ...

  4. Street Naming Committee - Wikipedia

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    The Street Naming Committee was set up to decide the names of the streets, the squares and the river of the new settlement of Adelaide, as it had been laid out by Colonel William Light in 1837. Light's map corresponds to the modern Adelaide city centre and North Adelaide. The committee met on 23 May 1837 and chose the names, which were gazetted ...

  5. Gabriel Bennett - Wikipedia

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    Bennett was born in London, a son of Solomon Bennett (c. 1795 – 11 January 1864) of 5 Slaverton Row, Walworth Road, London. and married in 1846.. In 1853 he emigrated to Melbourne, and the following year arrived in Adelaide and opened a butcher's shop in Currie Street then in 1857 moved to Hindley Street, then in 1863 moved into the wholesale meat trade.

  6. List of historic houses in South Australia - Wikipedia

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    North Adelaide Baptist Church: 142: Tynte Street: North Adelaide: Adelaide: Restaurant [50] Property gifted to the National Trust of South Australia in 2021. [51] Marble Hill: 1880: Governor of South Australia: Adel. Hills: Destroyed by bushfire 1955: 2009 sold by SA government to private individuals who are funding restoration Martindale Hall ...

  7. North Adelaide - Wikipedia

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    North Adelaide is a predominantly residential precinct and suburb of the City of Adelaide in South Australia, situated north of the River Torrens and within the Adelaide Park Lands. Laid out in a grid plan in three sections by Colonel William Light in 1837, the suburb contains many grand old mansions.

  8. John Balaban (serial killer) - Wikipedia

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    In about August 1952, she moved to Adelaide and lived in a shack at the rear of a boarding-house in North Parade, Torrensville. [17] She was murdered by Balaban in her room in the early evening of 5 December 1952. Thelma Joyce Balaban, who was born on 2 April 1923 at Kensington, South Australia, was the daughter of Arthur and Susan Ackland.

  9. Adelaide city centre - Wikipedia

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    Adelaide city centre, North Adelaide and the Park Lands Adelaide is separated from its greater metropolitan area by a ring of public parklands on all sides. The so-called "square mile" within the park lands is defined by a small area of high rise office and apartment buildings in the centre north, around King William Street, which runs north-to-south through the centre.