Place Names Register Extract
Wells Street
Extract date: 25/04/2024
| Name |
Wells |
| Type Designation |
Street |
| Place Id |
22055 |
| Place Type |
Road |
| Status |
Recorded |
| Date Registered |
|
| Locality / Suburb |
|
| |
Virginia |
| Local Government Area |
|
| |
Litchfield Council |
| History/Origin |
named after Charles Frederick Wells, a cadet Surveyor with the Goyder led Survey Expedition to establish Palmerston (now Darwin) in 1869 and who, in particular, was one of McLachlan's party at the townsite of Virginia at that time. |
Register & Gazettal information
| Date |
Gazettal |
Comment |
| |
(None Found) |
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