From Fields to Barrels


Local history of Adelaide's Southern Vales. The forgotten farms, vineyards, hotels, lost townships, and the families who built them. Stories written into the landscape, if you slow down to read them.


Coromandel Valley

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  • 4 June 2026

    Murray's Biscuit Factory

    Alexander Murray arrived in South Australia in 1840 and built his biscuit factory into a Coromandel Valley hillside, producing biscuits and jams for sixty years that found markets across the colonies and praise at international exhibitions.

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