The township, which was proclaimed on 3 August 1882,[3] is near the northern boundary of the Hundred of Cunningham.[1]
It was named by Sir William Jervois, Governor of South Australia 1877–83, after his daughter in law, Florence Annie Price, who married John Jervois, his eldest son. She was a daughter of Henry Strong Price, a pioneer pastoralist of the Flinders Ranges.[9]
Boundaries for the locality were created on 27 May 1999 for the "long established name."[4]
The principal local industries are grain farming and salt production. In the case of the latter, approximately 170,000 tonnes of sea salt is harvested from 1,000 ha (2,500 acres) of coastal salt evaporation ponds each year.[10] Cheetham Salt owns the operations.[11]
Tourism facilities are limited to the Wheatsheaf Hotel, established 1886, and a caravan park.
Wills Creek
Wills Creek at high tide
Although not right on the coast, Price has a causeway running to a mangrove-fringed tidal creek, Wills Creek, which connects it with the sea (Gulf St Vincent). At the end of the causeway there is a public boat ramp. Once outside the creek, fishing is plentiful.[citation needed]
Wills Creek is a very sheltered anchorage for boats and, in earlier times, it was from here that bagged salt and grain was loaded onto ketches for export. These products are now transported in bulk form by road. A 1911 newspaper reported that most of the ketches visiting Price via Wills Creek had, on at least one visit, suffered the inconvenience of being stuck in the mud of the creek at low tide.[12]
^ abBray, J.C. (3 August 1882). "Untitled proclamation re the Town of Price"(PDF). The South Australian Government Gazette. Government of South Australia. p. 2414. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
^Manning, Geoff, "Place Names: Price", Manning Index of South Australian History, State Library of South Australia, retrieved 12 January 2018
^Harbison, Pat; Kirkegaard, Ian; Cugley, John; Gackle, Angela (August 2009), Gulf St Vincent: a precious asset(PDF), Friends of Parks Inc / Friends of Gulf St Vincent, p. 14, ISBN9780646520438, retrieved 12 January 2018
^"THE COUNTRY. PRICE. October 10". South Australian Register. Adelaide. 12 October 1911. p. 9. Retrieved 1 August 2016. Most of the ketches calling here have at various times been stuck in the creek at low water and have had to wait, often at great inconvenience, for the tide to refloat them.
