Documents of interest
The following documents provide interesting reading and information relating to Mintaro and district, and to understanding the history and heritage of the wider region.
Community & Business Groups
Mintaro Institute Incorporated, Rules of the Mintaro Institute, 1878 [PDF]. Download File
Mintaro Progress Association, Strategic Plan 2023-2027, Mintaro SA, endorsed August 2022. Download File
Mintaro Progress Association, Constitution – procedures [correspondence], Mintaro SA, June 1992. Download File
Mintaro Progress Association, Constitution, rules and regulations, Mintaro SA, adopted June [1949]. Download File
Mintaro Progress Association, Constitution, rules and regulations, Mintaro SA, June 1992. Download File
Quick, Patricia, Mintaro-Manoora Football and Netball History 1900-2008, [Adelaide SA], The Printing Hub, 2010.
Waite Agricultural Research Institute, Mortlock Experiment Station: information booklet, Adelaide SA, University of Adelaide, 1974. Download File
Development
Clare and Gilbert Valleys Council, Mintaro floodplain mapping [PDF], report prepared by Australian Water Environments, Eastwood SA, 2013.
https://lgasa-web.squiz.cloud/?a=212542, p.44, accessed 22/10/2024.
Clare and Gilbert Valleys Council, Mintaro stormwater management plan [PDF], report prepared by Australian Water Environments, Eastwood SA, 2020. Download File
Clare and Gilbert Valleys Council, Policy and strategic directions review: township of Mintaro [PDF], report prepared by Urban & Regional Planning Solutions, with Swanbury Penglase Architects and Nicole Rolfe, Heritage Planner, Norwood SA, 2005. Download File
Clare and Gilbert Valleys Council, Township site history: Mintaro – allotments 376 to 379, preliminary site history assessment [PDF], final report prepared by Australian Water Environments, Eastwood SA, 2014. Download File
Mace Engineering Services, Mintaro Oval Gate Pillars, Leasingham Road, Mintaro: report for Clare & Gilbert Valleys Council [PDF], Clare SA, Mace Engineering Services, 2017. Download File
Mace Engineering Services, Structural report on building condition, Mintaro Institute, Leasingham Road, Mintaro: for Clare & Gilbert Valleys Council [PDF], Clare SA, Mace Engineering Services, 2016. Download File
McDermid, Ian, Mintaro Land Research [personal notes], Clare Regional History Group, Ian McDermid Collection, 2023.
Mintaro: the future preserving the past, Economic development action plan, May 2002.
(Community consultation project with Mintaro Progress Association and Clare and Gilbert Valleys Council.) Download File
South Australia, Dept for Environment & Water, Martindale Hall Conservation Park: Draft Management Plan, Adelaide, 2024.
Education
Bell, Peter & South Australia, Dept of Administrative and Infrastructure Services & Historical Research Pty Ltd & Swanbury Penglase Architects [PDF], Mintaro Public School: architectural history: report to Swanbury Penglase Architects. Historical Research, Adelaide, 2005. Download File
Celebrating Mintaro Primary School 1872 to 2006 [PDF], Mintaro Farrell Flat Primary School, [Mintaro, S. Aust.], 2007. Download File
Mintaro Primary School: Centenary, 1872-1972 [PDF], Mintaro Primary School Centenary Committee, [Mintaro, S. Aust.], 1972. Download File
Mintaro Farrell Flat Primary School: 120th anniversary, 1st birthday: souvenir booklet [PDF], Mintaro Farrell Flat Primary School, [Mintaro, S. Aust.], 2007. Download File
Environment
Favier, Diane, Rixon, Sharon and Scholz, Glen, A River Management Plan for the Wakefield Catchment [PDF], Adelaide SA, Dept for Environment and Heritage, Environment Protection Agency, 2000.
https://www.waterconnect.sa.gov.au/Content/Publications/DEW/A%20River%20Management%20Plan%20for%20the%20Wakefield%20Catchment_EPA2000.pdf, accessed 23/10/2024.
Events
Mass of celebration and thanksgiving for the Sesquicentenary of the Church of the Imaculate Conception, Mintaro, 1856-2006: Sunday 19th November 2006, Mintaro SA, Church Sequicentenary Committee, 2006. Download File
Martindale Hall Centenary Grand Ball 20th October 1979, Souvenir programme, including ticket. Download File
Mintaro Methodist Church, 100th Anniversary, souvenir of Centenary celebrations held Saturday 30th & Sunday 31st October, 1954, Kadina SA, ‘K & W Times’ Print. Download File
Heritage
Aeuckens A., Mintaro – brief chronology, Heritage Conservation Branch, Dept of Environment and Planning, 1981.
Mintaro conservation study, McDougall & Vines (Architectural & Heritage Consultants), Norwood, South Australia, 1988. Download File
Mintaro Progress Association, Mintaro State Heritage Area [booklet], revised edn, Mintaro SA, Mintaro Progress Association, 2016.
(First published 1990, South Australia, Dept of Environment and Planning, State Heritage Branch.)
South Australia, State Heritage Branch, Dept of Environment and Planning, Survey of the Heritage of Eight Lower North Towns: Angaston; Auburn; Burra; Clare; Kapunda; Port Wakefield; Saddleworth; Tanunda [PDF], Historical Consultants Pty Ltd and Hames Sharley Australia, [Adelaide SA], 1990. Download File
South Australia, Dept for Environment and Heritage, Mintaro State Heritage Area: Dwellings, stores, workshops and offices, State Heritage Places entered in the South Australian Heritage Register, [Adelaide SA], 2006. Download File
State Heritage Branch Register Report prepared by Kate McDougall, 7 Sep 1982.
South Australia, Dept for Environment and Water, Heritage SA, Heritage standard: Mintaro State Heritage Area [PDF], 2024.
https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/1056171-DEW-Mintaro-Heritage-Standard-FIN-web.pdf, accessed 22/10/2024.
Designation of State Heritage Area (Mintaro) [PDF], The South Australian Government Gazette, No.47, 20 September 1984, p.931. Download File
South Australia, Dept for Environment and Water, Heritage SA, Fact sheet: Mintaro State Heritage Area [PDF], 2017.
https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/her-fact-mintarosha-factsheet.pdf, accessed 22/10/2024.
South Australia, Dept for Environment and Water, Heritage SA, Mintaro State Heritage Area [map/PDF], 2023.
https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/images/Heritage/mintaro-sha-map.pdf, accessed 22/10/2024.
South Australia, Dept of Environment and Planning, Heritage Branch, Mintaro State Heritage Area [booklet], 1996, includes heritage trail.
https://cdn.environment.sa.gov.au/environment/docs/mintaro_sha.pdf, accessed 22/10/2024.
South Australia, Dept of Environment & Planning, South Australian State historic preservation plan: historical guidelines, report prepared by Susan Marsden, [Adelaide SA], 1984. Download File
History
Clare and Gilbert Valleys Council, Mintaro General Cemetery burial register 1864-2000 [PDF], Clare SA. Copy held by Clare Regional History Group.
Clare Museum, S.A. Early Mintaro [website]. Clare branch, National Trust SA. https://www.claremuseum.com/1-early-mintaro, accessed 29/10/2024.
Clare Museum, S.A. Mintaro’s Peak [website]. Clare branch, National Trust SA. https://www.claremuseum.com/2-mintaro-s-peak, accessed 29/10/2024.
Clare Museum, S.A. Martindale Hall Story: 1, The Bowman Family Arrives [website]. Clare branch, National Trust SA. https://www.claremuseum.com/martindale-estate-the-beginning, accessed 29/10/2024.
Clare Museum, S.A. Martindale Hall Story: 2, The first Edmund Bowman [website]. Clare branch, National Trust SA. https://www.claremuseum.com/martindale-hall-edmund-bowman, accessed 29/10/2024.
Clare Museum, S.A. Martindale Hall Story: 3, The inspiration of Martindale Hall [website]. Clare branch, National Trust SA. https://www.claremuseum.com/bowmans-of-martindale-hall, accessed 29/10/2024.
Clare Museum, S.A. Martindale Hall Story: 4, The Mortlocks purchase [website]. Clare branch, National Trust SA. https://www.claremuseum.com/mortlocks-of-martindale-hall, accessed 29/10/2024.
Clare Museum, S.A. Martindale Hall Story: 4a, Martindale House pre-WW1 [website]. Clare branch, National Trust SA. https://www.claremuseum.com/martindale-hall, accessed 29/10/2024.
Clare Museum, S.A. Martindale Hall Story: 4b, The ‘Martindale’ Yachts [website]. Clare branch, National Trust SA. https://www.claremuseum.com/my-yacht-martindale, accessed 29/10/2024.
Clare Museum, S.A. Martindale Hall Story: 5, The Historic interwar Martindale [website]. Clare branch, National Trust SA. https://www.claremuseum.com/historic-interwar-martindale, accessed 29/10/2024.
Clare Museum, S.A. Martindale Hall Story: 6, Adelaide University’s Record Bequest [website]. Clare branch, National Trust SA. https://www.claremuseum.com/university-martindale-hall, accessed 29/10/2024.
Clare Museum, S.A. The Ngadjuri People [website]. Clare branch, National Trust SA. https://www.claremuseum.com/ngadjuri, accessed 29/10/2024.
Clare Museum, S.A. Tales of the Bullockies [website]. Clare branch, National Trust SA. https://www.claremuseum.com/tales-of-the-bullockies, accessed 29/10/2024.
Clutterbuck, Wayne. Mules, muleteers and the Malacca [PDF], [Adelaide SA], Self-published, 2019. Download File
Historic Mintaro [brochure], Mintaro Tourism Association, 1991. Copy held by Clare Regional History Group, July 2022.
Jenner, Rosemary, Mintaro recollections, Adelaide, Digital Print Australia, 2020.
Marsden, Susan. Local Government Association of South Australia: a history of South Australian councils to 1936 [PDF], Adelaide [SA], LGA, 2012. Download File
Mintaro Institute Incorporated, History of Mintaro Institute 1878-1978 [PDF], Mintaro SA, Mintaro Institute Committee, [1978]. Download File
Moyle, Jean V, The Wakefield, its water and its wealth, 2nd edn, Riverton SA, Jean V Moyle, 1982.
Our pastoral industry, Australian ‘Garden & Field’, Adelaide SA, 1910. http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-27702990, accessed 22/10/2024
Ridgway, Margaret I, History of Mintaro this year and yesteryear, Mintaro Branch, South Australian Country Women’s Association, [Mintaro SA], 1951.
Slee, M. A. (Maxwell Arthur), John Hill c. 1810-1860: South Australia’s discoverer of rivers, Unlock the Past, St Agnes SA, 2015.
Military Service
Burman, Dennis, Trooper Bert Vickery, letters from the Boer War 1899–1902 [PDF], Stockport SA, 2016. Download File
(Original copy and CD gifted by Dennis to MPA in 2016/7, now held by Clare Regional History Group.)
Unveiling and dedication of the Mintaro & District War Memorial, ANZAC Day, Mintaro, Sunday 25 April 1999. Download File
Unveiling and dedication of the World War II Memorial, Mintaro, Sunday, July 19th, 1959. Download File
People
Duance, Raymond Veer, From Lewannick to South Australia: a history of the migration of the Duance families from Cornwall to South Australia, Nuriootpa SA, Raymond V. Duance, 2020.
McDermid, Ian, Mintaro Families [personal notes], Clare Regional History Group, Ian McDermid Collection, 2023.
The Mintaro Methodists (poster 150), The Pioneers Association of South Australia, [March 2018]. (Miller family)
Mintaro Progress Association, Mintaro People: South Australian almanacs 1864–1872, compiled by Peter Murdoch, 2024. Download File
Places & Buildings
Building plan: Police station Callington (also at Truro and Mintaro) [PDF], extract from Mintaro conservation study, McDougall & Vines (Architectural & Heritage Consultants), Norwood SA, 1988. Download File
District Council of Clare, Memorandum of Lease (Mortlock Park) [PDF], 1963. (Original at State Records of South Australia, GRS 16086/1/1.) Download File
District Council of Clare, Rate assessments 1857-1917 [PDF], Copy held by Clare Regional History Group.
(Only 1857/58 to 1867/68 include entries for Mintaro. Rate assessments transferred to District Council of Stanley and records have been lost or burnt.)
District Council of Stanley, Memorandum of Lease (Mortlock Park) [PDF], 1912. Download File
Manning, Geoffrey H, A Compendium of the Place Names of South Australia, final version 2012 [PDF], p.270. https://geoffmanning.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Mannings-Place-Names_-full-version-.pdf, accessesd 3/10/2024.
Mintaro Progress Association, Mintaro Institute timeline [PDF], [Mintaro SA, 2003.] Download File
State Records of South Australia, Correspondence files (‘SGO’ files) – Surveyor General’s Office (GRG35/2), File No: 876/1855 Subject: Memorial req. land for Cemetery, Mintaro. Download File
Religion
A Requiem for the Repose of the Soul of Rosye Forsyth Mortlock, St Peter’s Church, Mintaro, Sunday, September the Third, 1939, 11 a.m. [PDF] Download File
Concept Plan for St Peter’s Quiet Garden Mintaro, Prepared by Lorraine Edmunds for the Mintaro Progress Association, February 2015. [PDF] Download File
Curnow, Edwin A, Bible Christian Methodists in South Australia, 1850-1900: a biography of chapels and their people, Uniting Church SA Historical Society, Adelaide SA, 2015.
Lally, Gerald, A Landmark of Faith: Church of the Immaculate Conception Mintaro and its Parishioners, 1856-2006, Clare SA, Gerald A. Lally, c2006.
Paull, Ian C, Methodism in Auburn and district, Adelaide SA, South Australian Methodist Historical Society, 1961.
Johnson, Win, The Methodists of Clare, 1851-1977, by Winifred N. Johnson; assisted by Ella Cheetham, Marie Bartholmaeus, Heather Lymburn, Brahma Lodge SA, W. Johnson, 1994.
St Peter’s Mintaro Spiritual Healing Ministry, in The Willochran, Series 5/no. 118, March 2019, p.16-17. [PDF] Download File
St Peter’s Sacred Space [brochure], Anglican Diocese of Willochra, [2022]. [PDF] Download File
The Society of Jesus in Australia (part 1), in The Woodstock Letters: A record of current events and historical notes connected with the colleges and missions of the Society of Jesus, Vol. 37, Woodstock College 1908. https://jesuitarchives.omeka.net/files/show/724, accessed 8/8/2021.
For more, see entry for AUSTRALIA in Woodstock Letters Index, Volumes 1-80, 1872-1951, Woodstock College Press, Woodstock, Maryland, 1960.
Theses
Bowes, Keith R, Land settlement in South Australia 1857-1890 [thesis], Australian National University, 1962. ANU Open Research Repository, https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/items/e767fab0-eaee-4ca4-95d0-582b4c3c5d2b, accessed 22/10/2024.
Chalmers, Brian, Methodists and Revivalism in South Australia, 1838-1939: The quest for ‘vital religion’ [thesis], Flinders University, Faculty of Education, Humanities and Law, Adelaide, 2016. Download File
Farrell, Zandria K. Sacred to the memory: an archaeological investigation into emotion and ideology within two regional cemeteries [thesis]. Flinders University of South Australia, Dept of Archaeology, Adelaide, 2003. Download File
Foale, Marie Therese, The Sisters of St Joseph: their foundation and early history, 1866-1893 [thesis], University of Adelaide, Dept of History, 1986. Adelaide Research & Scholarship, https://hdl.handle.net/2440/21566, accessed 22/10/2024.
James, M. Stephanie, Becoming South Australians? The impact of the Irish on the county of Stanley, 1841-1871 [thesis], Flinders University of South Australia, Dept of History, Adelaide, 2009. Download File
McEgan, Janine, Irish graves of South Australia’s Mid-North, 1850-1899: An examination of cultural significance [Master’s research project], Flinders University, Department of Archaeology, Adelaide, 2017. Download File
Milburn, Elizabeth M, Clare 1840 to 1900: changing elites within a South Australian community [thesis], University of Adelaide, School of History, 1982. Adelaide Research & Scholarship, https://hdl.handle.net/2440/122298, accessed 22/10/2024.
Parkin, Cherry Wedgwood, Irish female immigration to South Australia during the Great Famine [thesis], University of Adelaide, History Dept, 1964. Adelaide Research & Scholarship, https://hdl.handle.net/2440/105611, accessed 22/10/2024.
Payton, Philip J, The Cornish in South Australia: their influence and experience from immigration to assimilation, 1836-1936 [thesis], University of Adelaide, Dept of Politics, 1978. Adelaide Research & Scholarship, https://hdl.handle.net/2440/81955, accessed 22/10/2024.
Travel & Tourism
Land cruises to Mintaro, South Australia, Adelaide, Bonds Scenic Motor Tours, 1936. Download File
Historic Mintaro [brochure], Mintaro Tourism Association, 1991. Copy held by Clare Regional History Group, July 2022. Download File