Price, South Australia

A small town on the Yorke Peninsula which is sustained by salt mining.
Location: 133 km north west of Adelaide; 12 km north of Ardrossan.
Origin of name: takes its name from Florence Anne Price who married a son of the Governor of South Australia, Major-General Sir William Francis Jervois.
Brief history: the town was established in 1882. The causeway which extends from the township through the mangrove swamps to Wells Creek connects to a wharf where the ketches from Port Adelaide moored when they brought provisions for the township. In the early days the ketches back-loaded with the mallee roots for the fires of people in Adelaide. Harvesting of salt commenced here in October, 1917, when the Gulf Salt Company took out the first lease. The local salt refinery, said to be the largest salt refinery in the Southern Hemisphere, produces over 1000 tonnes of refined salt per week.
Natural features: Wells Creek; Mangrove Point.
Heritage features: School (1885); Wheatsheaf Hotel.