Pre-colonial history The Adelaide area was inhabited long before European settlement in 1836 by one of the tribes which later came to be known as the Kaurna people, or Adelaide tribe.
As Whitmore Square Whitmore Square is one of six squares in Colonel
William Light's 1837 plan for the city of Adelaide and the only one which retains the configuration given to it by
Light's plan. Light intended that the squares be used as public parks or
village commons. after William Wolryche Whitmore, a British politician who introduced the
South Australia Act 1834, also known as the
Foundation Act, to the British House of Commons. He was also one of the board of the South Australian Colonisation Commission set up by the Act. After the removal of indigenous trees during the city's early colonial settlement, Whitmore Square was replanted in the 1850s and fenced to protect it from animals. The fences were finally removed in 1932. During World War II,
air raid trenches were installed in the square and it was used for training of soldiers. to commemorate the last full-blood Kaurna person and speaker of the language, a woman also known as Amelia Taylor, who was the daughter of
Ityamai-itpina ("King Rodney"). The spelling of her name was later amended to Iparrityi.
Iparrityi was born in the 1840s in
Port Adelaide, and is sometimes referred to as "the last woman of the Adelaide Tribe".{{cite journal|journal=Journal of the Anthropological Society of Adelaide ==21st century==