Hamilton is located 16km north of Kapunda. In around 1850, George Weighton Robertson subdivided section 1195, Hundred of Waterloo into 88 allotments naming it after his birthplace in Scotland. In 1851 a roving reporter said:
The country was an alternation of wood and low downs till we reached the Hamilton Hotel (rather a high-sounding name for a small roadside inn), in the township of the same name; which township, so far as we could make out, seemed incipient - consisting of two houses. Here we dined in a rather snug parlor, under the auspices of the landlady's sister, herself being called to Adelaide to give evidence in some affairs. The name sometimes given to this locality, "Hamilton near the Dirty Light'', is not flattering.
The name was also given to a subdivision of section 479, Hundred of Yatala by Robert Hamilton and Francis McCollim in January 1840.
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