Near Hamilton in the Light River Valley. The beautiful Belvidere Anglican Church built in1861 and still in use. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Near Hamilton in the Light River Valley. The beautiful Belvidere Anglican Church built in1861 and still in use. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Hamilton. Hamilton is the major town of the northern part of the Light River Valley. The County of Light was declared in 1842 (following the Special Surveys) along with the County of Adelaide and the County of Gawler. It is that historic. But the first Hundred of land for sale in the northern Light Valley was not declared until 1851. At that time each section of land was usually 80 acres and a rectangular grid was applied to the Light River Valley. The Hundred of Waterloo, where Hamilton now stands was declared in 1851 but land was being sold in the 1840s. One of the first to take up land was George Robertson in 1849 when he purchased an 89 acre section. But it is not known if he purchased land from the government or from the Secondary Towns Association. He did however purchase more land in 1855 from the Secondary Towns Association. In 1849-50 he subdivided part of his land to create a private township of 88 allotments along the Light River which he named Hamilton after his birthplace in Scotland. Apart from a couple of houses the Hamilton Hotel (1852) was the first structure since it was on the bullock team route from Burra. Other hotels had already been built along the bullock route in the Light River Valley with the Royal Oak Hotel at Tothill Creek in 1848 and the Springfield Hotel north of Marrabel in 1850. Robertson ran the Hamilton Hotel himself until 1854 and again in the 1860s and 1870s. He also owned the Wheatsheaf Inn in Allendale North from 1866. The Hamilton Hotel was burnt down in 1875 and it was rebuilt and reopened. It finally closed in 1898 and is now gone. It was located next to the old blacksmith shop which is now a ruin but still visible. The other early public structure was the first Anglican Church. It was built on land donated by George Robertson for the structure. It opened in 1857 and served the congregation until the current Hamilton Anglican Church was built with funding from the Dutton family of Anlaby in 1902. (The foundation stone was laid in 1896.) The current Edwardian style Anglican Parish Hall was built in 1907 with funds from numerous garden parties and fetes held in the grounds of Anlaby House. It was built directly in front of the old Anglican Church of 1857. The first Anglican Church was demolished in 1958. Another early structure of the town was the Bible Christian Methodist Church. Land was purchased for it in 1854 but the church did not open until 1862. It closed as a church in 2014. The third early structure was the town school built in local sandstone in 1861. It is the finest 19th century building in Hamilton today. William Heithersay was the first headmaster and he started the school with 35 students. After the 1875 Education Act it became a state school and by that time 76 pupils. The government added a fine stone residence for the head teacher in 1881. Alas the school closed in 1948. At one stage Hamilton had a second hotel too. It was the Farmers Home hotel which was first licensed in 1866. In those early days Hamilton had a blacksmith, wheelwright, saddlery, butcher, bootmaker, carpenter and two general stores. The last general store and Post Office closed in 1995. Almost next door to the old shop is Gill Park and the site of the original 1875 rammed earth tennis courts. Behind them in Gill Park is the new community hall. It was completed in 2007 thus maintaining life and social activity in the town. The hall was financed from the estate of a local resident Jill Gill who was killed in a car accident in 1999. The Gill family were pioneers of the district and they worshiped at Belvidere Anglican Church a few kilometres to the west of the town. That church was built in 1861 and consecrated in 1864. Although white settlement started early in the Light River Valley relations with the local Aboriginal people were usually very peaceful. But Hamilton was the nearest town to the site of an Aboriginal massacre of three white people. It occurred just to the west of the ranges looking down towards Tarlee where local Aboriginals used to congregate and camp. The story of massacre here is a tragic one. The Rainbird family arrived in SA in 1852 and moved to Kapunda and then to Hamilton by 1855. Then the tragedy occurred in 1861. According to a local history book a group of Aboriginal people camped neared the Rainbird house and after an Aboriginal boy died the massacre occured. But according to the court transcripts of the murder trial no group had camped near the Rainbird home. A small group of drunken Aboriginal men had appeared at the home after they had stolen alcohol. When Mr. Rainbird returned from work one evening Mrs. Rainbird and her two children aged six and four were missing. A search, headed by the police trooper from Kapunda, located their bodies in a nearby wombat hole. They had been brutally massacred. A further search was then made to locate the Aboriginal people who had been in the area during the day and eventually some Aboriginal men were captured and sent to Adelaide for trial. They were accused of rape and murder based on the evidence of one Aboriginal man who gave “Queen’s evidence.” One man was acquitted, presumably the one who gave Queen’s evidence and four other Aboriginal men were convicted and found guilty of murder and sentenced to death by hanging. The four were hanged on 7 June 1861. A small, rather vague memorial to Mrs. Rainbird and her children is located in the cemetery behind the Anglican Church in Hamilton but why were they buried here? It was the nearest cemetery to their home across the ranges. Hamilton township received great patronage from the Duttons nearby at Anlaby Station. St Matthews Anglican at Hamilton is a beautiful red brick Federation style church, constructed with the help of a major donation from the Dutton family in 1896 after the drowning of their 16 year old daughter Ethel in 1892. Ethel drowned at their beach house at Victor Harbor. Note the fine terracotta tiles, the arched windows, the use of blue stone and brick, and the interesting brick work in the tower. The stained glass windows in the church feature grape vines and leaves in typical Art Nouveau style. The architect of this fine church was F Naish. The church opened in 1896 but dedicated in 1902. The walls have murals of angels and paintings of the twelve Apostles. It has a superbly carved wooden reredos and the pipe organ was installed in 1904. Ethel Dutton and some other members of the Dutton family are buried in the cemetery here and the church has memorial stained glass windows for members of the Dutton family. |
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| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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