Millswood

Millswood is an inner-southern mainly residential suburb of Adelaide in the City of Unley.

Millswood is an inner-southern mainly residential suburb of Adelaide in the City of Unley. It was named after Scotsman Samuel Mills, who arrived in the colony in 1839.

Millswood was named after Scotsman Samuel Mills, who arrived in the colony in 1839 and owned a property called Ravenswood Farm.In 1917, Hackett's Nursery, a family-run business then in Marryatville, was sold to a limited company, E. & W. Hackett Limited, with the Hacketts continuing as directors. In the same year the business bought a 6-acre (2.4 ha) plot in the Millswood Estate for over £20,067 to accommodate the nursery, which drew glowing praise in a 1923 newspaper article and continued to do business there until 1952.