Place Names Register Extract
Wood Crescent
Extract date: 24/11/2024
| Name |
Wood |
| Type Designation |
Crescent |
| Place Id |
21986 |
| Place Type |
Road |
| Status |
Registered |
| Date Registered |
17 October 2005 |
| Locality / Suburb |
|
| |
Rosebery |
| Local Government Area |
|
| |
Palmerston City Council |
| History/Origin |
Wood Crescent is named in commemoration of Mounted Constable Alexander Grey (Gray) Wood who joined the South Australian Police Force on 1 May 1880 then transferred to the Northern Territory three months later on 1 August 1880 as a 3/C Mounted Constable serving in the Top End. Mounted Constable Wood was serving at Yam Creek (The Shackle) a gold mining area north of Pine Creek when he died on 9 June 1881 after being stricken by sickness and diarrhoea, aged 27 years. |
Register & Gazettal information
| Date |
Gazettal |
Comment |
| 17/10/2005 |
|
|
| 02/11/2005 |
NTG44 |
|
| 15/11/2006 |
NTG46 |
Extension |
| 05/09/2007 |
NTG 36 |
South easterly extension to Haydon St |
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