Tea Tree Gully, South Australia

{{about|the suburb in Adelaide|the LGA|City of Tea Tree Gully}} {{Use Australian English|date=August 2019}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2022}} {{Infobox Australian place |type = suburb |name = Tea Tree Gully |city = Adelaide |state = sa |image = Tea tree gully vet hospital.jpg

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|near-w = Ridgehaven<br/>St Agnes |near-nw = Redwood Park |near-n = Banksia Park<br/>Upper Hermitage |near-ne = Houghton |near-e = Houghton |near-se = Houghton |near-s = Vista<br/>Houghton |near-sw = St Agnes | footnotes = Adjoining suburbs<ref name="LMV"/> | alternative_location_map = Australia SA inner Adelaide | pushpin_map_caption = Location in greater metropolitan Adelaide }} '''Tea Tree Gully''' ('''TTG''') is a suburb in the greater Adelaide, South Australia area, under the City of Tea Tree Gully. Tea Tree Gully is in the City of Tea Tree Gully local government area, the South Australian House of Assembly electoral district of Newland and the Australian House of Representatives Division of Makin.

==History== The suburb acquired its name from the white flowered 'tea trees' (''Leptospermum lanigerum'') that grew in the gully. Their leaves were brewed as a tea substitute by early settlers. John Stevens originally purchased land in the area, subdividing it in 1850 and naming the settlement ''Steventon''. By 1867 the settlement was known variously as Tea Tree Gully or Steventon, but Steventon had dropped from common usage by 1900.<ref>{{cite book | title=Tea Tree Gully Sketchbook | last = Auhl | first = Ian |others=Millsted, Rex (illust.) | publisher = Investigator Press | year=1979 | isbn=0-85864-028-7 | location = Hawthorndene | pages=6}}</ref> It was also sometimes known as "Teatree Gully".<ref name="shaw" /><ref name="parltrip" />

''Steventon'' Post Office opened around January 1859, was renamed ''Tea Tree Gully'' in 1872, ''Teatree Gully'' in 1925, ''Tea Tree Gully'' again in 1966 and St Agnes in 1969.<ref name = "Post Office">{{Cite web | last = Premier Postal History | title = Post Office List | publisher = Premier Postal Auctions | url = https://www.premierpostal.com/cgi-bin/wsProd.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=SA&country= | accessdate = 26 May 2011}}</ref>

The gully is a notable one, as it provided a gradient negotiable by bullock wagons travelling through the Mount Lofty Ranges and it had permanent springs which promoted the growth of tea tree.<ref name="shaw">{{cite web|url=http://shawfactor.com/gazetteer/south-australia/tea-tree-gully/|title=Local history of Tea Tree Gully|author=LocalHero|author-link=LocalHero}}</ref>

The historic Highercombe Hotel in Perseverance Road and the Old Tea Tree Gully Council Chambers in Haines Road are listed on the South Australian Heritage Register.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://maps.sa.gov.au/heritagesearch/HeritageItem.aspx?p_heritageno=3370 | title=National Trust Museum (former Highercombe Hotel) | publisher=Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources | work=South Australian Heritage Register | accessdate=30 March 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://maps.sa.gov.au/heritagesearch/HeritageItem.aspx?p_heritageno=3372 | title=Former Highercombe (subsequently Tea Tree Gully) Council Chambers | publisher=Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources | work=South Australian Heritage Register | accessdate=30 March 2016}}</ref>

===Highercombe Hotel=== {{Main|Tea Tree Gully Heritage Museum}} The Highercombe Hotel was built in 1854. Its first licensee was William Haines, who served as District Clerk of Tea Tree Gully council for 37 years and Member of Parliament for 6 years. The State Government purchased the building in 1879<ref name="parltrip">{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article43090114 |title=Parliamentary Trip to Teatree Gully |newspaper=South Australian Register |location=Adelaide |date=7 August 1879 |accessdate=19 November 2012 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> and it was used from 1880 to 1963 as a post and telegraph office. During this period part of the building was used as a school classroom, and accommodation for Headmasters' and the Postmasters' families.<ref>{{cite book | title=History, heritage, humour | author=City of Tea Tree Gully | year=1986 | publisher = City of Tea Tree Gully | location = Tea Tree Gully, South Australia | isbn=0-7316-1398-8 | pages=33–36}}</ref> From 1963 to 1967 the Tea Tree Gully Council used it as an office and library. The National Trust took over the building in 1967 and their Tea Tree Gully branch restored it and converted it to a heritage museum.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.nationaltrustsa.org.au/properties/ttg.htm | title=Old Highercombe Hotel | publisher = National Trust South Australia | accessdate=9 March 2008 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070920104827/http://www.nationaltrustsa.org.au/properties/ttg.htm  |archivedate = 20 September 2007}}</ref>

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