Description
Very large map of Rivoli Bay, Jessie, Millicent, Southend to Lake Bonney, South Australia, with a plan of allotments in each area dated 2nd June, 1874.
The Hundred of Mount Muirhead is a division of the County of Grey in southeastern South Australia. It was named on 15 July 1869. Two townships lie within the hundred—Millicent and Hatherleigh along with the localities of Sebastopol and Rocky Camp. Parts of Rendelsham, Furner, Canunda and Mount Burr localities also overlap the hundred. The hundred includes the northern part of Canunda National Park
The township of Jessie and surrounding lands was prepared in November 1872 by the surveyor-general’s office. In September 1891, the town allotments in the Town of Jessie all remained unsold and that there were “no occupants on town lots” while the “suburban lands” had been “nearly all sold. On 24 January 1929, the town was declared by a proclamation under the Crown Lands Act 1915 to “ceased to exist” .
