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581:, a sports stadium located at Menzies Crescent. Larger parks in the suburb include the Soldier's Memorial Gardens, St Helens Park, the Prospect Estate Reserve and Barker Gardens. Smaller green spaces include St Johns Wood Gardens (34°53'1.39"S 138°36'8.47"E) on the corner of Alpha Road and Main North Road, Percy Street Park (34°52'41.55"S 138°35'58.69"E), Dean Street Park (34°52'54.50"S 138°36'5.90"E) on the corner of Barker Road, Bradford Park (34°53'37.38"S 138°35'55.14"E) on Bradford Street, and Wilson Street Park (34°53'39.34"S 138°36'3.80"E) on the corner of Highbury Street. 704: 24: 561: 147: 386:
John Bradford received a land grant for section 373 of the Hundred of Yatala on July 25, 1838, he subdivided it into several eight-acre allotments, according to H.C. Talbot, the area was named for its stunning views over the Adelaide Plains and its separation from North Adelaide by the beautifully
587:(34°53'7.75"S 138°35'56.91"E) is the largest park in Prospect. It has an open grass area and includes a playground, tennis courts and a performing stage for park events. Other features include sandpits, water features, a footbridge, a heritage shelter and the Prospect Community Garden. 593:(34°53'33.35"S 138°35'43.33"E), located on Prospect Road, has a playground, public barbecues, rose gardens and climbing trees. It is also accessible from the rear of the park via Koonga Avenue. The City of Prospect's Spring Fair was formerly held here for almost four decades. 599:(34°53'3.39"S 138°35'38.96"E) is located on the corner of Alpha Road and Prospect Road and features a memorial for Australia soldiers, rose gardens and garden arches in the centre. It is popular for wedding ceremonies and light displays during the Christmas period. 607:
Prospect has several schools, including primary schools. Rosary School, a private Roman Catholic school from Reception to year 7, Prospect Primary School and Prospect North Primary School. Other schools include
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was established in 1872, formalising the name for local government and, in 1944, the city council voted to formally adopt the same name for the suburb which was the council seat itself.
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To the new settlers, the undeveloped locality presented a "beautiful prospect", being described as "well timbered, with waving gum and shady trees". Thus the early township was dubbed
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Several even older historic named subdivisions existed within the current suburb bounds around the turn of the twentieth century, according to an 1896 map of the Hundred of Yatala:
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wooded Parklands, filled with gum trees and wattles, the early Prospect Village was a private subdivision of sections 373 and 349 of the
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The seat was initially founded by Conrad Martens and Oliver Glasson, following Martens' venture as a landscape artist within the state.
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In the 1940s the area now known as Prospect was separated into seven localities. West of Prospect Road, from north to south, were
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Prospect comprises a large majority of the land area (about five-sevenths, or 71%) of the City of Prospect council area.
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and west of present-day Churchill Road from Winter Terrace up to Regency Road was once considered to be part of
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Immediately north of Regency Road section 367, in present-day Prospect's extreme north west, was a part of
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Other Details: Private subdivision of sections 373 & 349, now in the suburbs of Prospect and Ovingham
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Immediately north of Regency Road in section 354, present-day Prospect's extreme north east, lay
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The Romance of Place Names of South Australia, By Geoffrey.H.Manning, 1986, p.173.
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mansion at 32 Prospect Road on the southern border of Prospect, was built in 1885.
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The western side of Prospect facing north, bounded on the west by the railway line
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Section 371 (roughly present-day Rose Street up to Olive Street) was split into
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Section 348 immediately south of the early Prospect Village was once known as
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The first Prospect Post Office opened around 1861 and closed around 1872. A
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in 1874 and has remained open since then. It was located at First avenue,
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shortly after the colonisation of South Australia in 1838. The
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These were subsumed by Blair Athol. 424: 939: 413:office (open from 1861) was renamed 46:adding citations to reliable sources 17: 913:"Prospect mansion: Heir of romance" 884:Prospect supplement—eight pages in 122:Suburb of Adelaide, South Australia 13: 1065:Prospect, South Australia on Trove 14: 1531: 1058: 889:. Vol. 63, no. 9, 689. 690:Australian Census 2021 QuickStats 623: 614:Prescott College, South Australia 520:The part of Prospect east of the 22: 1029: 1004: 979: 955: 933: 905: 682:Australian Bureau of Statistics 572: 185:5 km (1.9 sq mi) 33:needs additional citations for 854: 838:(Map). c. 1945. 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