Nairne. Fine 19th century two storey stone house near the railway station. Perhaps it was the station masters house. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Nairne. Fine 19th century two storey stone house near the railway station. Perhaps it was the station masters house. / 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 | Scottish settler Matthew Smillie took out a Special Survey in 1839 of areas near Mt Barker. It was the eighth Special Survey in SA and named the Native Valleys Survey although the survey stretched between what is now Nairne and Woodside. This cost him £4,000 for 4,000 acres in the Hay Valley. Smillie had a vision of becoming a Scottish lord with many tenant farmers on his large estate. He built his fine two-storey residence, which he called, The Valleys (1844) north of Nairne. To cement his role as local lord of the region he subdivided a small part of his land to create the village of Narine in 1839. It was named after his wife’s maiden name. He advertised the blocks for sale and many sold quickly. He donated small portions of land for a reserve, a town market and a town cemetery. A few years later in 1847 Matthew Smillie died but his wife Elizabeth continued with the role of estate manager until her death in 1861. As late as the 1880s there were still around 15 tenant farmers on Smillie land and the Smillie family still owned around 2,500 acres. Matthew and Elizabeth were buried in the Nairne cemetery after their deaths in 1847 and 1861 respectively. Nairne began as a wheat-producing district and John Dunn of Mt Barker established a wind-powered flourmill in Nairne in 1842. It no longer stands but the more recent flourmill built in 1857 was acquired by John Dunn in 1864 and it still stands in the Main Street. Another early settler of Nairne was Samuel Day who also worked for a time for Matthew Smillie. He established a lime burning industry in the town in the 1850s. Henry Timmins was also an early settler and he established a tannery on Nairne Creek in 1851. James Shakes established the first inn in Nairne in 1845 which he called the Crooked Billet- depicted above. You can see it behind the Millers Arms Hotel in Leith Street. Leith in Scotland was the birthplace of Matthew Smillie. One of the old cottages built in Nairne beyond the creek behind the Albert Mill in Junction Street was the home of Eliza Smillie and her children. The cottage was built in 1852 the year William Smillie died in Paris but the gable section were added in the 1880s after Eliza had sold her Nairne properties. Nairne also had an early lime burning kiln and a brick making kiln from around 1850. During the 1870s copper mining flourished at nearby Kanmantoo and this brought an influx of miners and other residents. Apart from the tannery of Henry Timmins George Chapman established a bacon and smallgoods factory nearby in 1899. As the business expanded it moved into a modern factory further along the Nairne Creek. For many years George Chapman’s factory was the largest employer in the town with up to 400 employees but it was sold in 1987 to Weston Foods a British Company. They closed the factory in 2001. One of the major events in the history of Nairne was the arrival of the railway in 1883 as it was being pushed towards Bordertown and Melbourne for the Intercolonial Express train service which began in 1887. Add a description |
| 撮影日 | 2015-11-27 11:14:25 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| カメラ | DSC-HX30V , SONY |
| 露出 | 0.002 sec (1/500) |
| 開放F値 | f/3.2 |
| 焦点距離 | 5 mm |