Coolangatta Estate near Nowra on the Shoalhaven River. Established by Alexander Berry 1823. It once had 100 assigned convicts to build up the estate. The Blacksmith Shop from the 1830s or 1840s. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Coolangatta Estate near Nowra on the Shoalhaven River. Established by Alexander Berry 1823. It once had 100 assigned convicts to build up the estate. The Blacksmith Shop from the 1830s or 1840s. / denisbin
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-改変禁止 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Coolangatta. In 1822 Alexander Berry and his partner Edward Wollstonecraft took up a 10,000-acre land grant at the Shoalwater River heads. A nearby hill was known as Coolangatta by the local Aboriginal people and so that was the name Berry and Wollstonecraft adopted for their estate. To turn the virgin land into agricultural land by growing wheat, potato, maize and tobacco and producing cheese for dairy cows and beef from other cattle he was assigned 100 convicts to provide free labour. The nearest convict stockade was established at what was to become Wollongong in 1826. This stockade operated until 1845. But Alexander Berry also employed local Aboriginal men and was employing 242 men by 1838. Coolangatta estate grew quickly because apart from fertile land Berry sold felled red cedar (red gold) to Europe and bred horses for India. To capitalise on his products he started shipbuilding at Coolangatta. It was one of his ships called the Coolangatta which was wrecked near Point Danger off the NSW coast in 1846 that gave its name to the beach and town there. Berry married Wollstonecraft’s sister and he brought out to Coolangatta his brothers and sister from Scotland. His grand estate was well established by the time transportation of convicts ceased around 1850. By 1863 it covered 40,000 acres. Some of Berry’s early buildings still survive at Coolangatta including part of the main homestead and maids’ quarters (1820s), the coachman’s’ quarters (1823) and coach house (1832) and the community hall (1840). When Alexander Berry died in 1873 the estate passed to his son, and later his son left it to a cousin, Sir John Hay in 1889. The Hays owned the estate until 1946. When David Berry inherited the property in 1873 he nurtured the estate village of Broughton Creek which had its name changed to Berry in 1890 after David’s death. |
| 撮影日 | 2015-07-08 12:40:01 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| カメラ | DSC-HX30V , SONY |
| 露出 | 0.005 sec (1/200) |
| 開放F値 | f/3.2 |