Brown Hill, along with Mount Lofty, Green Hill, Flagstaff Hill and Black Hill, was used by Colonel William Light as a trig station for the 1837 survey of the City of Adelaide.
One of the children of Robert and Mary Thomas was a surveyor who assisted Colonel William Light in the survey which led to the founding of the City of Adelaide.
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The Lefevre Peninsula lies approximately 15 kilometres northwest of the centre of the city of Adelaide, South Australia.
Colonel William Light laid out the plan for the village, as he had done with the City of Adelaide itself.
Influenced by William Penn's design of Philadelphia, Light set out the city of Adelaide on a grid of one square mile, interspaced by wide boulevards and incorporating five large public squares.
Charles Richmond Glover, last mayor, and first Lord Mayor (1919), of the City of Adelaide