The
workers houses were mainly 2 bedroom home with a sleepout for
a third bedroom. This was normal due to restrictions following
World War II.
- All
the houses originally had large vegetable gardens and with
local supplies the workers and their families rarely needed
to go elsewhere for their shopping
- The
western side of the town of 18 houses and a general store
was built first from 1940, commencing with single men's quarters
and a mess hut.
- The
eastern section of 15 houses were the last built from 1948,
with the school in 1950. The oval followed, built on a government
reserve which marks the site of the original garden planted
by the surveyors who used Rapid Bay as their initial base
before establishing the site of Adelaide in 1836.
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