Walpeup. Matchetts General Store built in 1911. It is the only brick store of several built in the town. Note the curved parapet central door and wooden docoration on the veranda ends. Sign is for Melbourne Bitter. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Walpeup. Matchetts General Store built in 1911. It is the only brick store of several built in the town. Note the curved parapet central door and wooden docoration on the veranda ends. Sign is for Melbourne Bitter. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Walpeup. The towns along the railway line from Ouyen to Pinnaroo in South Australia were the first towns in Victoria to follow the railway rather than precede it. To the north of this Wimmera region was the Mallee and scrub lands towards the Murray River which eventually became the Murray-Sunset national park. To the south of this Wimmera region was the Big Desert which also became a national park. The suitable soils and underground water reserves from wells and pumps made about 750,000 acres of cereal lands open for farming. The government sank over 120 bores and wells in this area by 1914. The farmers moved into these lands in 1910 and the railway was extended from Ouyen to Walpeup and westward in 1912 to Murrayville and finally to Pinnaroo in 1915. Like the other towns along the railway line Walpeup and Underbool were settled in 1910 with the last town to be established in 1912 at Murrayville. The first of several general stores opened in Walpeup in 1909 and Matchetts built a red brick store with a curved parapet in 1911. The first school in Walpeup opened in 1911 in a house before moving to a local hall. The state school was built in 1914. A Post Office started operating in 1912 and the Bank of Victoria opened for business in 1918 and the town also had a Commercial Banking of Sydney too. The still used red brick Walpeup Memorial Hall opened in 1923. The red brick Catholic Church nearby was constructed in 1921 and it is the oldest solid construction church in the Ouyen to Murrayville area. It is noted for its castellated entry porch and diagonal leadlight windows. The wooden framed Presbyterian Church was put up in 1935 and the wooden framed Methodist Church was erected in 1937. It is now an Anglican – Uniting Church There is also a quaint wooden framed Lutheran Church in Walpeup which was moved from near Horsham to Walpeup in 1973. Near Walpeup is the Mallee Agricultural Research Station which was established on around 2,000 acres by the Victorian government in 1932 to address issues of silting, erosion, and crop experimentation for dryland farming. Over the years this centre bred some new varieties of wheat for Australia but the Station closed in 2009. |
| 撮影日 | 2016-01-08 07:29:19 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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