Friends Of Ferguson Park

We are a volunteer group who aim to care and preserve the bushland through land care and tree planting. We work in partnership with National Parks SA.

Ferguson Conservation Park is situated in the Adelaide suburb of Stoneyfell and covers an area of approximately 8 hectares. The Park comprises one of the last remaining patches of native vegetation on the Adelaide Plains. It largely supports South Australian Blue Gum (Eucalyptus leucoxylon) and Southern Cypress Pine (Callitris gracilis) Woodlands. Two creeks flow through the Park, Stoneyfell Creek and another unnamed creek.
Friends of Ferguson Conservation Park is a group of volunteers who are dedicated to conserving and improving the biodiversity and habitat values of Ferguson Conservation Park. The group meets on the first Sunday of every month to undertake a range of management activities, including weed control, revegetation, creek erosion control works, track maintenance and litter removal.
If anyone is interested in joining the group please contact the President, Geoffrey Bishop on 8390 3138.

History of the Park

In 1949, Alice Effie Ferguson of Chiverton, Stonyfell, bequeathed what is now known as Ferguson Conservation Park to the Minister of the Crown under the National Pleasure Resorts Act 1914-1935.
Effie Ferguson was born at Strathalbyn on 13th March 1871 to Dr Hugh Ferguson and his wife Jennet Melrose. She was christened Alice Euphemia Ferguson and spent her childhood at Strathalbyn and later at Glenelg.
Her father died at Glenelg in 1887. Her mother purchased Chiverton at Stonyfell and lived there with her unmarried brother, George Melrose, and her daughter Effie until she died in 1939.
Ferguson Conservation Park comprises two of the original allotments of the subdivision of Section 289, respectively 9 and 11 acres in extent. This land was sold to George Melrose in 1925.
Effie’s mother died in 1939 and her uncle George died in 1944. The Chiverton property and the two allotments then passed to Effie.
Effie Ferguson died in 1949. The Chiverton property was sold to the St Peter’s Collegiate Girls’ School. The South Australian Government Tourist Bureau administered the other two allotments until 1971, and in the following year it became a reserve under the control of the Nation Parks and Wild life Service.