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Alfred Weaver built a woolshed by
the seafront at Stansbury (then known as Oyster Bay) in 1846.
Wool Bay was intended to be the main
port for the recently surveyed '100' of Dalrymple. The early
settlers preferred Oyster Bay and the township of Stansbury was
proclaimed on July 31st, 1873.
Stansbury was named after a certain
'Mr Stansbury', a friend of South Australia's Governor
Musgrave.
 Stansbury's
original two hotels (the Dalrymple and the Oyster Bay) were
granted licenses in 1875.
The jetty was built in 1877
The District Council of Dalrymple
was proclaimed on October 18th 1877.
Albert Pitt built three lime-burning
kilns on the Stansbury foreshore in 1898. Ten acres were set aside
for a recreation area in the same year.
A new school was built by the
Department of Education in 1910 to replace the old Stansbury
School (built in 1878). The old school is now a museum.
Albert Pitt formed the Adelaide
Cement Company (now the Adelaide
Brighton Cement Ltd.) in 1913. Lime was quarried from the
cliffs at Stansbury and shipped to kilns at Port Adelaide.
A new jetty, sited in deeper water,
was built and opened in 1905. The old jetty was demolished in 1941
by Military Engineers needing a project to test their skills on.
In 1922, the SA Farmers Cooperative
Union built a butter factory. It closed in 1951 as farmers
exchanged herds for flocks.
Shack sites were established to the
south of the parklands in the early 1950s.
 The
Stansbury Institute came under Council trusteeship in 1962, with a
rating of twopence on the township.
Stansbury's population in 1961 was
401.
'Elanora',
a Jaycees home for the aged was opened in 1967.
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Don't
miss this marvellous mural (painted for the 125th anniversary in 1998)
depicting Stansbury's pioneer past. Pictures include the jetty 
