Bodalla. The beautiful Anglican Church built in 1880. Funded by the Mort family the owners of Bodalla. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Bodalla. The beautiful Anglican Church built in 1880. Funded by the Mort family the owners of Bodalla. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Bodalla.The first white settler here was Mr Weatherhead who had been an employee of John Hawdon. He established his run in 1834 and left it in 1838 when it was taken over by John Hawdon. Hawdon sold the Bodalla run in the 1856 when he defaulted on a loan. It was then taken over by Thomas Mort who held the mortgage over Hawdon in 1858. Mort wanted to make money and so he eventually started a township at Bodalla in 1870. But a Post Office opened in 1858 with the first store in 1862 and four primitive houses before the formal town was formed. Mort lived on the property with his wife and they both tried to promote the town and their estate. They established saw mills, cropping lands and dairy farms and they drained the swamps along the Tuross River. A cheese factory was started near Bodalla in 1865 with an associated piggery and bacon factory run by Thomas Mort. Mort extended his property to 13,000 acres and introduced hares and pheasants to his estate and by the time of his death in 1878 his land covered 56,000 acres. He employed 40 men and had 200 on contract as well as some tenants with around 500 people living on his estate or in the village. Bodalla had the most extensive dairy lands in NSW. Mort lived in Comerang House (now demolished) which was used for the early Anglican Church services. By 1878 his estate was making £67,000 profit per year. Mort largely paid for the Friendly Society’s Hall in Bodalla and the Anglican Church was built in 1880 as a memorial to Mort. The family, which owned all the land in this private village donated land for the Catholic Church too. His wife laid the foundation stone of the Anglican Church and Mort’s estate paid for the clergyman’s stipend until 1886. Mort was a founder of the AMP Society, an investor in the Parramatta Railway, in NSW gold mines but he was also a wool buyer and wool auctioneer and the first in Australia to use refrigeration to ship frozen meant to English markets in 1880. He worked with his brother and the Mort Company eventually merged with the Goldsborough Company in the 1888 to form Goldsborough Mort Ltd. Mort, who also owned 13 acres at Darling Point where he had his Sydney house, will be remembered for creating Bodalla, introducing English dairy cattle and using “model farming” techniques to modernise dairying in NSW. After Thomas Mort’s death the estate was run by trustees until his son reached 21 years of age in 1898. During this time the output of cheese from the Bodalla estate increased to 300 tons a year, and the production of bacon came from 1,200 pigs annually. The Trustees formed the Bodalla Company in 1887 by act of the NSW parliament. All the members of the Company were Mort family members. Much of the estate was leased for closer settlement in 1894 by the Bodalla Company but the Company kept the cheese and bacon factory. The Company owned all of Bodalla and every building and site except the Post Office and the school. In 1923 and 1924 the Company sold all their lands and the town was purchased by the individual tenants. The Company kept the cheese and bacon factory and a small parcel of land until 1931 when the home farm and factory site were also sold. The factory became owned by a cooperative of local dairy farmers until it closed in 1951 and milk was then carted to a larger factory in Moruya. The Mort family maintained shares in the Bodalla Cooperative and cheese business until 1987 when the Company turned 100 as it was formed in 1887. The old buildings in Bodalla include: the Public School 1878; the granite Anglican Church 1880 – architect was Edmund Blacket; and the Catholic Church 1886. The next town Narooma has a fine wooden Methodist Church ( 1914, tower 1934) and manse( 1935). |
| 撮影日 | 2016-05-08 14:52:22 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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