Moruya. Established 1850. Known as granite town. The Mechanics Institute built 1881. Became RSL Hall in 1953 and then a local community hall. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Moruya. Established 1850. Known as granite town. The Mechanics Institute built 1881. Became RSL Hall in 1953 and then a local community hall. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Moruya.Moruya is situated away from the coast on the Moruya River. The early port area for the Moruya distinct was at Broulee 12 kms away which was surveyed very early in 1837. Once the district was surveyed pastoralists could get legal ownership of land. This small place Broulee had an early police station and some other government services all built by convicts as were the great pastoral properties. Araluen station had 100 assigned convicts! But the population centre for the district became Moruya which was surveyed in 1850 with the first land being sold in 1852. Early pastoralists moved into the valleys between Bateman’s Bay and Moruya from 1829 hence the early development of Broulee. One of those early settlers was John Hawdon, brother of Joseph Hawdon who was the first to overland cattle with Charles Bonney from NSW to SA in 1838. John Hawdon got a free land grant and soon built a twenty-room mansion, Kiora House on it. John Hawdon of Kiora station was like other early pastoralists who used assigned convicts whenever they could. Hawdon in the late 1840s had 64,000 acres and “employed” 12 to 15 men (mainly convicts) at that time. Hawdon later purchased land in Bodalla. The town of Moruya received an immediate boost when gold was discovered in the Araluen Hills behind it in the Great Dividing Range in 1851 - but it did not last. More lasting was the opening of a pink granite quarry in the hills behind Moruya in the late 1850s. That quarry later provided stone for two of the main buildings in Martin’s Place in Sydney- the grand Post Office of 1872 and the Bank of NSW of 1868. Eventually the government opened a quarry along the Moruya River in the 1876 and it provided stone for the pylons of Sydney Harbour Bridge. Once Moruya was established Broulee declined further. The Courthouse was moved from there to Moruya in 1854 followed by the main Post Office in 1855. By 1859 Moruya had two hotels, three general stores and two temporary wooden churches. The Moruya River valley provided pasture for beef and dairy cattle and the fattening of pigs and the selling of timber and all these industries promoted the growth of Moruya. In the early days some wheat, potatoes and oats were also grown in the valley. Today Moruya also recognises the role played by the Air Force Base at Moruya during World War Two and one of eleven carved wooden sculptures along the main highway include The Airman. Surviving heritage buildings in Moruya include: the Courthouse 1879; the granite Catholic Church 1889; the granite Wesleyan Methodist Church 1864; the Post and Telegraph Office 1887; the Anglican Church 1891 designed by Edmund Blacket’s son Arthur with the foundation stone being laid by Mrs Mort; the Anglican Rectory 1873; the National School 1879; and the Masonic Lodge 1891. |
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| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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