The Karuna people were skilled at working with animal skins and fibre and probably traded these with the Narungga and other tribes. However, little is known about this small community of people. Colonel William Light chose the site for the foundations of Adelaide to be laid in 1836. He also helped plan the early town that developed into a city. Unlike many towns in Australia, Adelaide did not happen as a result of convicts being forced to settle here. In fact, Adelaide was settled by free people and it does not have a history that is linked with the early convict settlers. Thousands of Lutheran immigrants from Prussia, who fled because of religious persecution in their own country, settled here and by 1840 several satellite villages had been established around the main town. The German settlements included Hahndorf, Klemzig, Lobethal and it here that the state’s wine industry began. | 
