One of South Australia's earliest buildings and home to over 300 000 people from 1841 to 1988, Adelaide Gaol is one of Australia's longest operating prisons.

The person responsible for the greening of Adelaide in the first decades of the twentieth century.

Botanic Park has blossomed as a place for informal family gatherings and a venue for public events

A geologist and explorer, Cecil Madigan crossed the Simpson Desert in the last classic Australian exploration adventure.

It started in a tent and grew – meals, clothes, accommodation and recreation for servicemen on the move.

The first Anzac memorial was once an obelisk in a grove of wattles

Works by the renowned and unpretentious artist John Dowie enhance many public places

Celebrated at its opening in 1882, and again a century later, the rotunda remains a focus point for events in Elder Park.

From dumping ground to pleasure gardens

Her Majesty’s Theatre and the Central Market continue to attract people to Grote Street

In 1910 thousands of people lined the Torrens to see the carnival of lavishly decorated boats in the first Henley-on-Torrens Regatta

An eclectic mix since foundation, Hindley Street has seen it all

Violence and election irregularities marred the process when, in 1855, South Australians got their first chance to elect politicians drawn from, and responsible to, the people.

Fisher became the first Mayor of Adelaide in 1840 and the first resident South Australian to be knighted in 1860

Mahomet Allum was described in glowing testimonials as 'the wonder man' and by his adversaries as a 'quack'. 

Montefiore Hill, overlooking the city planned by Colonel William Light, was named after South Australian Colonization Commissioner Jacob Montefiore

A very industrious and conservative businessman, Murdoch McLeod was generous but modest and never flamboyant. 

The Museum of Economic Botany features exhibits outlining the practical and economic use of plant materials. 

A botanist, horticulturist and the director of the Adelaide Botanic Garden, Richard Schomburgk was honoured locally as 'the people’s pet'. 

Roy Rene, known most prominently for his character of Mo McCackie, has been generally hailed as one of Australia’s best comic performers. 

Artist Samuel Thomas Gill produced a lively visual record of early South Australia.

A pastoralist, philanthropist and businessman, Elder supported numerous outback expeditions and Adelaide institutions.

Built in 1881, this heritage-listed building on Victoria Square has long captured the public's imagination with tales of secret tunnels.

The South Australian Tourism Commission, established in 1993, focuses on marketing South Australia as a tourist destination to interstate and overseas markets.

Remembering the role of horses in war.