Antwerp. The stone memorial on the site of the former state school. Antwerp school oepratd from 1891 to 1982. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Antwerp. The stone memorial on the site of the former state school. Antwerp school oepratd from 1891 to 1982. / 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 | Antwerp.The first Europeans to settle this district were George Shaw and Horatio Ellerman who arrived in 1846. Ellerman applied for 130,000 acres of leasehold land upon which he grazed 10,000 sheep. It was Horatio Ellerman who named his property 'Antwerp' after his birthplace and that name was later given to the settlement created when grain farmers arrived. It is likely that Ellerman's son Clarence, who was born in 1852, was the first European child born in the Wimmera. The small township of Antwerp was established for the newly arrived grain farmers after the railway was extended northwards from Dimboola in 1894. Today Antwerp has grain silos and a couple of houses, a closed general store and the ruins of the former Anglican Church built around 1920. The former state school operated from 1902 to 1982 but it has been demolished. But once upon a time Antwerp had the EMU brand eucalyptus distillery which was run by the Eucalyptus Mallee Oil Company. Ellerman had a tumultuous relationship with the local Aborigines who lived along the nearby Wimmera River. Stock went missing and Ellerman led a punitive expedition seeking revenge against the local aboriginal people in 1846. Ellerman shot and killed an Aboriginal woman but found a male child clinging to her neck when he examined the body. Ellerman took the boy home with him and it changed his attitude to Aboriginal people instantly. He called the boy Willie and partially educated him. Willie was taken to England by another pastoralist in 1852 but became sick and died there. Ellerman’s remorse for his murderous actions was great and he took up theology studies and eventually became a probationary Presbyterian minister in 1866 in a service at the Dimboola which was attended by Moravian missionaries. After Ellerman’s conflict with the Aborigines two Moravian ministers established the Ebenezer Aboriginal Mission station on the Wimmera River at Antwerp in 1859. Ellerman helped the missionaries befriend and involve the Aborigines with the mission. Despite the murder of the Aboriginal woman in 1846 Ellerman was trusted and respected by the Aborigines by the late 1850s. The mission station closed in 1904. |
| 撮影日 | 2016-01-07 08:32:41 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| カメラ | DSC-HX30V , SONY |
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