Indigenous According to the
Manning Index of South Australian History the "
Nantuwwara [sic] tribe of some 25 to 30 once occupied the country from the
River Wakefield, north to
Whitwarta and west to
Hummock Range", an area which would encompass the modern localities of
Bowmans,
Whitwarta,
Goyder, Beaufort,
Nantawarra and
Mount Templeton. The term Nantuwara (or Nantuwaru) is considered to be a specific name for the northern hordes of the
Kaurna people. Stone implements thought to have been used by the Nantuwara people were discovered at sites adjoining the banks of the lower reaches of the River Wakefield and added to a
South Australian Museum collection curated by
Harold Cooper in the 1960s.
1900s The Beaufort had a school opened in 1917 and had 13 students in 1950 but has since closed. In 1918 a
Methodist Church was constructed in Beaufort. The church was closed and demolished in the early 1950s and rebuilt in 1953 to the south in
Clovelly Park, one of
Adelaide's new housing suburbs at the time. ==References==