Wellington Courthouse built 1864 closed 1949 now a National Trust building, South Australia

            The Police Station, Ferry House, Postal and Telegraph Offices were all part of the Court House complex which was the site of the first police station in Wellington in 1841. A new building was built in 1849 and the present building in 1864. The stores and stables were attached in 1865.

The Courthouse is a National Trust building: built 1864 and closing in 1946, it was purchased by the National Trust in 1975.
Today, space within the complex is used as a café, museum and for accommodation.

Prior to European settlement the area around Wellington was home to the Ngarrindjeri people. They made bark and reed canoes and lived on the fish, and the animals that frequented the riverbank. 

The first European into the area was Captain Charles Sturt during his exploration to solve the mystery of why so many rivers flowed westward from the Great Dividing Range. He and his party rowed a whale boat down the Murrumbidgee in late 1829 and reached the present site of Wellington, at the mouth of the Murray River, on 9 February 1830.

By 1838 Wellington had become one of the most important settlements on the Murray. The ferry, which was established that year, and the town became the only point where traffic could cross the Murray.

During the 1850s, Wellington became an important point on the gold run from the Victorian goldfields across to Adelaide.

Taken on: July 15, 2020

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