Mitcham Library Service - Blackwood Public Library
Library in Mitcham

Our site provides a prosperity of information about the different range of services and activities Council provides as well as our City's major attractions and places of historic significance. Use this segment of the website to find out where Mitch am is located, facts and figures of our City, the meaning after our corporate identity, and the organization structure of the Council. The City of Mitch am acknowledges this land and the traditional lands of the Kaurna people and that we respect their spiritual relationship with their country. We also admit the Kaurna people as the custodians of the Adelaide region and that their cultural and heritage beliefs are calm as crucial to the living Kaurna people today. Your views are important to us, so we hope you will use the feedback facilities we have provided to let us know what you think. The City of Mitch am is a tidy and green City a appropriate deposit to live and work. With an enviable unite of both urban and rural environments, a prestigious heritage and sense of tradition, Mitch am and its surrounds offer a unique experience for those tempted by cultural exhibitions and festivals, native bush land, heritage and architecture, scenic views and more. Founded in 1853, the City of Mitch am is Adelaide's second oldest Council area and celebrated 150 years in 2003. Residents of Mitch am live in 32 suburbs all of which have their own particular style and community spirit. From the leafy backdrop of the Hills environment, to the foothills homes which share exquisite panoramic views of Adelaide and the plains, the variety and uniqueness of the area is obvious. The plains suburbs include Springfield, one of Adelaide's most prestigious suburbs, our heritage listed garden suburb Colonel Light Gardens which provides an excellent example of 1920's town planning, with affordable housing on present in the clean suburbs in the City's western sector to the wide avenue streets of the eastern plains suburbs of Kings wood and Hawthorn. Whilst largely residential the City of Mitch am has two key commercial areas in the Blackwood and Mitch am centers with neighborhood shopping in other areas. An afternoon exploring the impressive quartz ite quarries is a must for visitors. Spectacular ripple marked surfaces are preserved in the rocks and large scale folds reflect the intensity of the forces which deformed the rocks nearly 500 million years ago. Trees and Vegetation Plants that pose a risk to Native Bush land.