Ingle Farm: Once A Farm
The Farm, Ingle Farm is not labeled in the above image but is the group of buildings to the right of Dalwood
History
James Rowe arrived in South Australia on 22 Apr 1837 on the "South Australian", and spent two years on Kangaroo Island then settling with his family in the Ingle Farm area in 1848.
They initially took up 100 acres in section 3030, Hundred of Yatala in 1849, using the land primarily for farming wheat, barley, peas, and hay.
James Rowe's grandson, Jabez Sleeman Rowe (1871-1955), took on the farm and married Martha Barbara Wright (1868 - 1943), from Inglewood in 1902 and consequently named the farm Ingle Farm and the main road through the area is now known as Wright Road.
Other farms acquired in the Ingle Farm area by the Rowe family were, Orama, Monreith, and Durham.
Ingle Farm: Now a Suburb
In 1959, the South Australian Housing Trust purchased 730 acres from the Rowe brothers, Cyril (married to Alice) and Slem (married to Jean) Rowe, and started a housing estate, with the first Housing Trust homes built in 1965 and 2,500 houses completed by 1975.
The Rowe family name is preserved in the naming of Rowe Park, next to the Ingle Farm Primary School,
Part of the series of A Letterbox Cache for each Postcode and/or Location.
The cache contains a stamp for Letterboxers to use in their Letterboxing book.
Please do not take the letterbox stamp. This is not a tradeable item.
A good place to park is near the posted coordinates S 34° 50.140' E 138° 38.248' Once in the farmyard of the original farm Ingle Farm.
Please do not park on busy Wright Road.
The cache is hidden at S 34° 50.148' E 138° 38.262'