Author(s): Geoffrey Bishop

Australiana

A history of the township of Uraidla in the Adelaide Hills, east of Adelaide South Australia which developed from the late 1840s as a fruit-growing and market gardening locality. The small settlement expanded following the 1881 subdivision by Edmund Wilcox of Section 12 into 14 workman's blocks. The story of these blocks is followed through to the 1970s. The histories of the township's shops, school, churches, institute, gold mines and the famous Uraidla & Summertown Floricultural & Horticultural Society Show (est. 1884) are told..