DSC08019 : 無料・フリー素材/写真
DSC08019 / 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 | Black Hill/Friendensthal.In March of 1838 Joseph Hawdon and Charles Bonney camped on what is now the Marne River after overlanding the first cattle to SA from NSW. German mineralogist Johann Menge followed in 1839 when he named this river which rises in the Barossa Valley near Mt Pleasant the Rhine River. A tributary which rises near Keyneton he named the North Rhine. Both names were changed by Act of Parliament in 1917 and they became the Marne and the Somme respectively. The tiny settlement of Black Hill sits beside the Marne River. It the early 1840s C. King of Kings Station took out a pastoral lease which covered all this to Black Hill. His station down here was called Kongolia Station. The Hundred of Ridley was declared for this area in 1860. Later in the early 1870s a farmer subdivided part of his farm to create the settlement of Friedensthal or Valley of Peace. Most of the early settlers here came from the Barossa Valley or Springton. The name changed 1917 to Black Hill after the nearby black granite quarries. A small Lutheran Church was built in 1891 only to be replaced with a solid stone structure in 1898. It closed in 2001. A small post Office opened in 1891 and operated until the 1990s and a pug school room was built in 1894. After the tin and iron district hall was built in 1912 and the school was transferred to this building but not until in 1919. The school stayed there until a new state school was erected in 1926. The school closed in 1945. When the school closed the building was purchased by the Congregational Church and it operated services here into the 1950s. It amalgamated with the Congregational Church in Sanderston in 1951 which had been a Baptist Church up until that time but the congregation continued to dwindle and it closed about 1968. Although the existence of the black granite was known and lent its name to the town in 1917 the first quarry did not open until 1947. Now two quarries operate to mine the biotite norite a variety of granite which is usually just called black granite. One of the quarries has been owned for many years by Tillett cemetery memorials and it is a common headstone material in SA. Black Hill granite has also been used on David Jones store, Parliament House in Canberra and it is now found in cemeteries and kitchen around Australia. This granite was formed about 500 million years ago. |
| 撮影日 | 2016-01-09 15:07:56 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| カメラ | DSC-HX30V , SONY |
| 露出 | 0.004 sec (1/250) |
| 開放F値 | f/9.0 |