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An unofficial Post Office was opened on South Road on 16 May 1927 but was discontinued in 1952 when postal services were taken over by a shop at 18 Quinlan Avenue. A purpose-built Post Office center was built on South Road St Marys in 1964 with postal services continuing at the shop until 1975 when
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then bought the unsold blocks in St Marys to provide low cost housing for workers. Kiley
Reserve was later acquired by the State Government for the South Road Primary School which was built in 1951. By 1960, the South Australian Housing Trust had built nearly 400 homes in St Marys. Construction of
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Baptist Church in 1980 with the children accommodated in the
Primary School buildings. The Primary School was closed in 1997 and the school grounds and oval were sold to the Edwardstown Baptist Church who financed the purchase through the sale of blocks of land in Kiley Court the following year.
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until various shops were established on the northern side of the church. The suburb was an important wheat growing area for
Adelaide until the northern areas of the colony came under cultivation when some of the St Marys properties were replanted with almonds, grape vines and olives.
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building had deteriorated at which time a stone church was built on a new site 250 m to the south. The original church building continued in use as a school until 1928. The first person interred at the new cemetery was James Penn, a descendant of
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attacks in 1990, 1997 and 2000. The four gum trees along the boundary of the St
Bernadette's oval are the remnant of a double row of gum trees planted along South Road in the 1880s to counter over-clearing of the suburb.
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which was never developed. A Junior
Primary School was established adjacent to the Primary School in 1954. Due to declining enrollments as the suburb aged, the Junior Primary School site and buildings were sold to the
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The increasing use of motor vehicles in the 1920s led to the subdivision of several farms in the area into the estates of St Marys Park, Castle Estate, Clovelly
Gardens and South Road Estate. The
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The olive tree in the front yard of No. 6 Donald Street, which was once part of an orchard planted by
Babbage in the 1860s, was removed to allow subdivision of the property around 2020
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today. Springfield Creek also ran through the suburb and was the cause of substantial flooding during heavy rains. In the 1970s the creek was replaced by drainage pipes and covered.
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standards and the oval was officially made the club's home ground although home games would continue to be held at
Adelaide Oval. In 1971 the ground was officially re-opened as
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to a site in St Marys. The current church was constructed adjacent to the original structure in 1965. The church operated a community kindergarten from 1953 to 1981.
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Benjamin Street was named by Benjamin Babbage himself in 1869 and the street's gum trees are all that remain of the native trees planted by Babbage on his estate.
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stifled land sales and by 1949 only 25 people were living in the estates. The land set aside for Kiley Reserve in the subdivision of
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established their clubrooms and conducted training here. In 1969 upgrading began to bring the oval to
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