Second Valley Fleurieu Peninsula. Boating near the cliffs.
Finniss Vale- Second Valley.
Colonel Light named this place as Finniss Vale after Boyle Finniss who had lived there and at Rapid Bay till the end of January 1837. But later it became known as Second Valley as it was the second valley that Light had landed on after Rapid Bay- the first. The township never progressed much until the arrival of BHP in the 1940s.However, land was taken up in 1840 and the first crops were potatoes and wheat. Because of the rich soils a flour mill was soon established outside the town which is now known as Leonard’s Mill. Two Irish millers John and James Leonard built the mill in 1849 and it operated until 1890. It has been known as “their” mill ever since, despite other uses. Flour from the mill was shipped to Port Adelaide as Second Valley was never an international port. The stone work of the Second Valley breakwater which links to the jetty (1910) dates from 1855. The first pub here was known as the Finniss Vale Hotel in the 1850s. It burnt down in 1928. The Wesleyan Methodists built the first church in the town in 1857. Prominent land developer William Randall (College Park and Burnside) is credited with layout part of Second Valley in the 1850s. He called his “town” Randalsea. He left Second Valley in 1868 and moved to Port Pirie.
Second Valley Fleurieu Peninsula. Boating near the cliffs.
Finniss Vale- Second Valley.
Colonel Light named this place as Finniss Vale after Boyle Finniss who had lived there and at Rapid Bay till the end of January 1837. But later it became known as Second Valley as it was the second valley that Light had landed on after Rapid Bay- the first. The township never progressed much until the arrival of BHP in the 1940s.However, land was taken up in 1840 and the first crops were potatoes and wheat. Because of the rich soils a flour mill was soon established outside the town which is now known as Leonard’s Mill. Two Irish millers John and James Leonard built the mill in 1849 and it operated until 1890. It has been known as “their” mill ever since, despite other uses. Flour from the mill was shipped to Port Adelaide as Second Valley was never an international port. The stone work of the Second Valley breakwater which links to the jetty (1910) dates from 1855. The first pub here was known as the Finniss Vale Hotel in the 1850s. It burnt down in 1928. The Wesleyan Methodists built the first church in the town in 1857. Prominent land developer William Randall (College Park and Burnside) is credited with layout part of Second Valley in the 1850s. He called his “town” Randalsea. He left Second Valley in 1868 and moved to Port Pirie.