Corporate Town of Peterborough

The two municipalities would coexist alongside each other, the town surrounded by the district council, for more than sixty years.

[1] The council acquired the Petersburg Institute building on Main Street for a town hall in 1894; it survives today but has been converted to residential use.

[1][2] It built the current Peterborough Town Hall next door in 1927; the large, ornate building is heritage-listed and now serves as the seat of its successor municipality.

[3] In 1913, the council decided to institute a municipal electric supply; the subsequent plant was extended several times, and in 1936 was described as "the most up-to-date outside [Adelaide], with the exception of Port Pirie".

[4] In 1986, ownership of the rolling stock of the Steamtown Peterborough Railway Preservation Society was vested in the council by the Parliament of South Australia following a parliamentary inquiry.