It was named by the Street Naming Committee after James Hurtle Fisher, South Australia's first Resident Commissioner.
The year 1840 saw the first local government in Australia with the election of a mayor, three aldermen and fifteen councilors to the new Adelaide Corporation with James Hurtle Fisher as the first mayor who ran office from 1840 to 1842.
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