Mintaro. The Clare Valley. Magpie and Stump Hotel. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Mintaro. The Clare Valley. Magpie and Stump Hotel. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Magpie and Stump Hotel. First hotel on this site opened 1851 for the bullock drivers taking copper from Burra to Port Wakefield. Up to 30 bullock teams camped near here each night. Original hotel burnt down in 1902 and present hotel was erected 1904. Good façade with corner veranda. Dining room incorporates the old bakehouse ovens. Legend has it that Mintaro was named by Spanish mule and bullock drivers from Uruguay who carted copper through this spot in their way from Burra to Port Wakefield from 1853-57. In Spanish Mintaro means “camping spot.” But Mintaro was named four years before these Spanish team drivers arrived in SA! The government surveyed and put up for auction land here in 1849. Before this time the area was part of a pastoral lease for Martindale Station established by the Bowman brothers in 1841 and other pastoralists like Arthur Young. Bowmans had 11,000 acres here. When the government sold land here in 1849 Henry Gilbert of Pewsey Vale and Gilberton purchased it. He then subdivided part of his lands to create a town which he called Mintaro after a local Aboriginal word meaning “place of netted water.” Gilbert was speculating on making money from a town ideally situated for the bullock teams travelling south from Burra as it straddle the Wakefield River. Next to Gilbert’s land an Irishman Joseph Brady purchased land at Mintaro north. He later discovered excellent quality slate there and began slate mining which still continues to this day. Brady was the man who donated two acres to the Catholic Church in 1855. The town grew quickly but when the railway reached Gawler in 1857 the bullock teams altered their routes south and the town was bypassed by most teams from that time onwards. But the 1850s were still good times for Mintaro. Cottages with walled gardens were constructed as well as several stores, the Devonshire Hotel, the Primitive and Wesleyan Methodist and Catholic churches and the flourmill. The slate quarries boosted the town despite the lack of traffic passing through it. Brady leased the quarry to Thompson Priest who managed the quarries which employed a third of the town’s males. Apart from town buildings great construction works occurred in the early 1880s. It was at that time that one of the young Bowman men, Edmund, aged 21 years, had Martindale Hall built at a cost of £30,000. Nearby the Chief Justice of South Australia Sir Samuel Way purchased the property Kadlunga. That property dated from the 1850s when it was owned by the English and Australian Copper Company. The homestead dates from around 1857 when the Company installed Mr Melville as the resident manager. The Company sold Kadlunga in 1871. The Chief Justice purchased Kadlunga in 1880 and added an upper storey to the house. Meantime Thompson Priest who leased the slate quarries died in 1885 and the Mintaro slate quarries closed until 1893 when a local syndicate was formed to reactivate the quarries. 2,500 shares were sold to a group of local men who restarted the operations to keep the town economically strong. |
| 撮影日 | 2015-11-02 13:02:04 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| カメラ | DSC-HX30V , SONY |
| 露出 | 0.001 sec (1/1000) |
| 開放F値 | f/4.5 |