Hope Valley is a suburb of Adelaide in the City of Tea Tree Gully. Hope Valley was more the result of random settlement than of actual town planning. Jacob Pitman first purchased an 80-acre section in 1839. In the early 1840s he sold a few allotments. One such allotment was purchased in 1841 by his friend William Holden who set up a butcher's shop an…
Hope Valley is a suburb of Adelaide in the City of Tea Tree Gully. Hope Valley was more the result of random settlement than of actual town planning. Jacob Pitman first purchased an 80-acre section in 1839. In the early 1840s he sold a few allotments. One such allotment was purchased in 1841 by his friend William Holden who set up a butcher's shop and general store. The site of this store was near the present corner of Grand Junction and Valley Roads. Holden is credited with naming the area "Hope Valley" after returning home in 1842 to find that his house and business had burnt down in a bushfire, but rather than becoming despondent, he felt optimistic. Holden left the area in 1851 to pursue a career in journalism.
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