Port Elliot. The fine bluestone Institute building. It was built in 1883. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Port Elliot. The fine bluestone Institute building. It was built in 1883. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Port Elliot. White settlers moved to this area around 1840 and Port Elliot was the first proclaimed town along this part of the southern coast although Encounter Bay/Yilki was the first white settlement. Why was Port Elliot so special? The town was surveyed and laid out in 1852 and named Elliot after a friend of Governor Sir Henry Young. He was the Governor who encouraged an experimental river boat race up the Murray River to Wentworth to see if paddle steamers were a transport option for SA. The race between captains Randell and Cadell was successful in 1853 and the SA river boat trade began in 1854, albeit very slowly. But the origins of the town go back further into the past. Horseshoe Bay had been proclaimed a port by the government in 1851 following a commission report of 1849 which looked at the feasibility of a canal or a train route from Goolwa to an ocean port. This was forward thinking when the viability of paddle steamer trade up the Murray had not even been established. The report suggested a railway to Horseshoe Bay and work on it began in late 1851 and it was completed in December 1853. In 1854 the first public railway in Australia began services between Goolwa, the last port on the River Murray before its mouth and Port Elliot a deep sea port where goods could be unloaded from international shipping. The horse drawn railway was built to take goods to Goolwa wharves where they could be loaded onto paddle steamers which could transport the goods to sheep stations along the Murray and along the Darling River too. But Port Elliot was not well enough protected from the southern seas and five ships were lost with great loss of life in the first two years. A stone obelisk to assist shipping and to act like a lighthouse was erected above Horseshoe Bay in 1852 with a blue flag being flown when it was not safe to try and enter the Horseshoe Bay. So from 1856 shipping at the port declined and Port Elliot finally closed as an international port in 1865 when Granite Island and the new town of Victor Harbor took over as the main port along the south coast. The horse railway was extended from Victor Harbor through Goolwa to Strathalbyn at this time in 1867. At Horseshoe Bay water was made available on the jetty and at the rail terminal for ships and horses. It came from a spring at Waterport north of Port Elliot and was moved in a pipeline. The road there was named Waterport Road. Waterport House probably predates the survey of this land which occurred in 1856. The Waterport area once had a school, a church, brickworks, a store and a cemetery. The first public building completed in Port Elliot was a hotel built in 1852 as the Port Elliot Hotel which is now Arnella House. Other interesting old buildings in Port Elliot from the period before 1900 or thereabouts include: the public school 1880, the Hothham Congregational Church 1901(replacing an earlier 1863 Congregational Church) , the Royal Family Hotel 1880, the Courthouse 1866, the Police Station and residence 1853, the old Council Chambers 1879, the Institute 1883, the Port Elliot Hotel (formerly the Railway Hotel 1867) and St Judes Anglican Church 1854 and its parish hall built in 1895. |
| 撮影日 | 2016-07-18 10:16:38 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| カメラ | DSC-HX30V , SONY |
| 露出 | 0.003 sec (1/320) |
| 開放F値 | f/3.2 |