Whyte-Yarcowie Institute. Built in 1909. Additions of supper room made in 1912. Note tin ticket shed on left and War Memorial on right. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Whyte-Yarcowie Institute. Built in 1909. Additions of supper room made in 1912. Note tin ticket shed on left and War Memorial on right. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Whyte-Yarcowie. Like the other settlements along the way the pastoralists moved into the district in the 1840s. Closer settlement followed much later, with the town being surveyed and declared just after the Strangways Act of 1869. The first town settlers arrived in 1872. Once the railway service started in 1881 the town progressed more. In the early days it was called Yarcowie and only had the name changed to Whyte-Yarcowie in 1929. It was on the boundary of two hundreds – Whyte and Terowie, so the town was actually divided in two between two district councils in the nineteenth century. If you died in one half of the town your relatives had to apply to the other local council area for permission for a burial in their cemetery! The cemetery was in Belalie Council (The Hundred of Whyte) but most of the town was in Terowie Council area (The Hundred of Terowie.) This issue was finally resolved between the councils in 1889. The first big milestone in the history of the town was the opening of the school in 1877. It was built at a cost of over £1,200. It was designed to accommodate 80 children but towards its closure the average enrolment was nearer 12 students. The first teacher was George Lower and the last was R Sheridan. In the 1950s the teachers were Brain Gerlach and Gordon Pearse and L Schliebs. It finally closed in 1971. Within a few years there were two hotels, a Post Office, a Wesleyan Church (1877)and a Catholic Church 1875 ( demolished and replaced with a new church in 1929). The 1929 Catholic Church known as St Simon and ST Jude cost over £2,200 to build. It closed in 1960. The Anglican Church was built around 1882 and demolished 1964. It was known as the smallest Anglican Church in Australia. A tiny metal replica of the church remains on the corner of the church site. Whyte-Yarcowie had a flour mill which operated from 1876 until 1920. The stone flourmill was three storeys high and the biggest structure in the town. A small amount of rubble from the flour mill remains on the road to the cemetery. A National Bank was built in Whyte-Yarcowie in 1885 designed by architect Daniel Garlick. The Commercial Hotel near the highway was built and opened in 1881. The district Institute was erected in 1909 and is still in use. The early Police Station was built in 1879 with additions made in 1883 but it is now a private residence. After the First World War one of the local pastoral runs was subdivided into soldier settler blocks but they were too small and the land was marginal and of the original 15 soldier settlers, only one became a long term resident in the district. Also in the 1920s a forest reserve was established by the local Agricultural Bureau just outside of the town. It was planted with over 35,000 trees. When this was sold in 1973 the new owner of the land cleared some of the plantation but most still remains adjacent to the historic cemetery. During World War Two ammunition storage bunkers were dug in the sloping hills to the east of Whyte-Yarcowie. The thriving town of the 1870s and early 1880s has now almost disappeared. The railway line to Peterborough closed in the 1980s. |
| 撮影日 | 2018-01-11 11:19:47 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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