Cooma. The former Presbyterian Church built with a grand spire in 1882. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Cooma. The former Presbyterian Church built with a grand spire in 1882. / 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 | Cooma.Partners Copper and Levy established Kuma station in 1834 which was soon taken over by a Scottish pastoralist named James Kirwan. They took the name from a local Aboriginal word Coombah meaning “big lake” or “open space.” Cooma is only 5kms from the Murrumbidgee River from where it obtains its water. In 1842 John Lambie the Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Monaro built his residence, office and stables on what was to become Cooma township. This was his base from which he assessed pastoral runs and collected leasehold monies for the government which was £10 per annum. Lambie claimed 1,280 acres out of the Kuma run to create Lambie’s paddock. The owner of Kuma run, James Kirwan opened a small inn on his land near Lambie’s Paddock. Thus when Cooma was surveyed in 1849 there were already two main structures in the area. Lambie Street of Cooma was where Lambie had his paddock and office. Kirwan soon added a blacksmith, store and wool store to the fledgling town. Lambie added a lockup and a police station. The first town land was sold in 1850 and the town progressed with an early police station, general stores and a private school. The discovery of gold at Kiandra in the high Snowy Mountains in 1860 boosted the town further especially when some of the unsuccessful diggers stayed in the town to run businesses. In 1861 a town school was proposed and it opened in 1863 and it is still in use. (Much later Catholic Sisters opened a church school in Cooma in 1888 and the Anglicans followed suit in 1905.) The Robertson Land Acts of 1861 increased the rural population surrounding Cooma as some small selectors took up holdings of 100 to 300 acres but the large estates persisted as many pastoralists bought their land up freehold in this period. In 1866 some 20 runs near Cooma still compromised over 300,000 acres in total. Once the town was well established public buildings like the churches were erected. The plentiful local supplies of granitic gneiss were used for these structures and in 1872 Cooma had 13 stone masons living in the town. The first church in the whole region, Christ Church Anglican, was founded in 1845 by Bishop Broughton some 3kms outside of present day Cooma in Myalla Road but it did not open until 1850 .As the town grew it was too far away and it closed in 1870. It was restored in 1936 and again in the 1960s until it was heritage listed. Within Cooma township St Pauls’ Anglican was built in 1865 and nearby was St Patrick’s Catholic built in 1873 and St Andrews Presbyterian built in 1880 and opened in 1882. The Presbyterian manse is next door and it was built in 1891.The Methodists built a brick church in Cooma in 1889 but it was demolished and replaced in 1928. The public government buildings which still stand are the unusual Courthouse built in 1886, the wonderful Italianate style Post Office built in 1872, and the old Cooma Gaol which was constructed in the early 1870s. The town also has some fine hotels, especially the Cooma Hotel 1862 and the Royal Hotel 1858, and some quaint old cottages – mainly in Lambie Street. Beside the Information Centre is the statue of the Man from Snowy River (from Banjo Patterson’s famous poem of the same name written in 1890) and Centennial Park and the Avenue of 27 Flags from the Snowy Mountains project workers. Two more significant events changed the face of modern Cooma. One was the arrival of the train line from Sydney and Goulburn in 1889 and the other was the siting of the headquarters of the Snowy Mountains administration in Cooma in 1949. This increased the population from around 2,000 to over 10,000 people during the construction phase of the project. In 1959 to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the start of the Snowy Mountains Scheme an avenue of 27 flags was erected to represent the different nationalities of workers involved in the construction process. Today the population has shrunk back to around 6,000 people and the railway line was closed in 1986 although during the Snowy Mountains construction phase it was in constant use. In 1992 a public meeting in Cooma saw the formation of a local group who set about restoring the old railway station and starting the Monaro Plains tourist railway. In mid-2015 it was closed for track maintenance reasons and it is not known when it will reopen. |
| 撮影日 | 2016-05-10 10:41:11 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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