Jubilee 150 Walkway

The Jubilee 150 Walkway is one of the outcomes of the celebrations commemorating the 150th Jubilee of the state of South Australia. [South Australia was founded on the 28th December 1836.] The walkway is a series of 150 bronze plaques set into the pavement of North Terrace, Adelaide. The plaques contain the names and deeds of the people who made major contibutions to the founding and development of South Australia.

The plaques are arranged in alphabetic order, and stretch from King William Street to Pulteney Street along the north side of North Terrace. The walkway passes in front of Government House, the National War Memorial, the State Library, the Museum, the Art Gallery and the University of Adelaide.

References and notes

*Emily Potter, [http://www.api-network.com/cgi-bin/altitude21c/fly?page=Issue2&n=2 "How can you live in a city of monuments?": Reading Commemoration and Forgetting in Adelaide's North Terrace Precinct] , Altitude vol 2, 2002.