Mount Pleasant: Show, History and Market

Mount Pleasant can be explored during a stay through specific local events and themes. The annual Mount Pleasant Show brings together agricultural and horticultural categories; the History Room and Heritage Trail point to different aspects of local history. The Farmers Market adds to the picture with recurring events, food and gourmet products. Dates and programmes for individual events may change; check the details if you are planning your trip around a specific date.

Mount Pleasant Show

The Mount Pleasant Show takes place annually. It features livestock, horse events, agricultural produce and household products, as well as fruit, flowers, vegetables, poultry and pigeons. Livestock and demonstrations, agricultural produce, horticulture and household products thus come together in one event. The show takes place at Talunga Park on Melrose Street. If you are making the event the reason for your trip, you can plan your stay around its annual date.

Local History in the Collection and Buildings

The Mount Pleasant District History Room is located in Mount Pleasant’s Soldiers' Memorial Hall. It preserves archives and photographs relating to the former Mount Pleasant District Council area, including the townships of Palmer, Tungkillo, Mount Pleasant, Springton and Eden Valley. The geographic scope of the holdings therefore extends beyond the town’s name and encompasses several named townships in the former District Council area. The archives and photographs also represent different types of historical material and give the collection a regional focus.

The former Mount Pleasant police station is also part of the historical context. It was sold into private ownership in 2017. A description updated in 2021 reports that the owners are restoring and preserving the historic building. The station’s history thus complements the archives and photographs in the History Room with the story of a specific historic building.

Heritage Trail

The Mount Pleasant Heritage Trail can be explored using the free Barossa Heritage Trails app. It offers a different way to engage with history than the History Room: the latter focuses on archives and photographs relating to the former district, while the Heritage Trail offers an app-guided exploration. For thematic planning, a regional collection and a named trail can therefore be considered different ways to explore local history.

Farmers Market

The Mount Pleasant Farmers Market regularly holds the annual Easter Twilight Market and Christmas Twilight Market, a Farmers Market Long Lunch, a Quiz Night and the annual SA Spring Garden Festival. The event names represent different formats: two twilight markets, a long lunch, a quiz night and a garden festival.

Food and gourmet products include fruit and vegetables, dairy products, cheese, eggs, honey, olive oil, meat, bread, pastries, jam, wine and chocolate. There is also international cuisine and freshly roasted coffee. The offerings thus range from individual food and gourmet products to prepared cuisine and coffee.

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