Barunga Gap. Hummocks homestead. Built with 9 rooms in 1858. Bought by Robert Barr Smith in 1869. He renamed it from Barunga homestead to Hummocks homestead.It is in the Hummock Ranges. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Barunga Gap. Hummocks homestead. Built with 9 rooms in 1858. Bought by Robert Barr Smith in 1869. He renamed it from Barunga homestead to Hummocks homestead.It is in the Hummock Ranges. / 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 |
|---|---|
| 説明 | Hummocks Station. This history of white occupation of the Hummock Ranges and the lands around them began in 1842 when Captain John Ellis a wealthy captain took out an annual leasehold on the Hummock Ranges run. Ellis arrived in SA in 1839 on the Buckinghamshire. In 1839 he was one of several purchasers of a Special Survey along the Gawler River. Their property was called Buckland Park. Ellis bought out the others in 1855 and then sold Buckland Park to the Doctors Browne brothers of Booborowie. Ellis was a speculator and pastoralist with great resources. In 1851 he purchased freehold 50,000 acres (i.e. £50,000) near Port MacDonnell. Ellis was a businessman and one of the first parliamentarians of South Australia in 1851 so he had managers on his properties. The most significant manager of the Hummocks run was Hugh Cameron. By 1860 the two properties of Hummocks and Bumbunga covered 100 square miles or 64,000 acres. A few years later the government was resuming leasehold lands in the region. The Hundred of Cameron around Lochiel and Lake Bumbunga was named after Hugh Cameron and declared in 1869 as was the Hundred of Barunga mainly made up of leased lands from the Hummocks and Barunga runs. The leasehold land was reduced to thirteen square miles mainly to the west of the Hummock Ranges. The two major buyers of land in the Hundreds of Cameron and Barunga were Robert Barr Smith and John Maslin. In total they bought about 95 or so sections of land mainly in 1870 and 1871 which they ran in partnership until it was dissolved in 1886 and Barr Smith retained Hummocks runs and Maslin took Bundaleer run. Hummocks station became the 30,000 acre freehold Hummocks run with some leasehold lands west of the Hummock Ranges. Most sections contained 100 to 300 acres or more. In 1867 John Ellis returned to England but one of his sons remained to manage his South East properties but the Hummocks runs were sold. The son who remained was Thomas Ellis who in 1883 donated £1,000 for the erection of the clock and tower on the Mount Gambier Town Hall.The Barunga homestead on Ellis’ run was built in 1858 from local red ironstone which is found in the creeks flowing down from the Hummock Ranges. Barunga Creek flows beside the Hummocks homestead. His manager would have lived here as would have John Ellis when he visited his property. Surveyor General George Goyder on his visit in 1864 noted that the homestead was a nine roomed stone house. When the government began resuming lands for the creation of the Hundreds of Barunga and Cameron in 1869 John Ellis sold the leasehold lands of his Hummocks and Barunga runs to Robert Barr Smith and John Maslin. At this time the old Barunga homestead became known as the Hummocks homestead as it still is today. Around 1858 part of the ironstone shearers quarters were built with significant later additions and window changes probably around 1870 when Robert Barr Smith became the major owner ( with John Maslin) of Hummocks station. Around 1860 an ironstone whim or water tank was built, stables and other outbuildings and stone dog kennels. Robert Barr Smith of Torrens Park house gave the Hummocks run to his son Tom Elder Bar Smith in 1899. In 1918 at the end of World War One Tom Barr Smith put the almost 30,000 acre freehold estate up for sale and the government bought it for closer settlement. The first soldier settlers moved on to the grain farms in 1921 and the soldier settlements on Hummocks estate were some of the most successful in South Australia. Around 42 soldier settler properties were subdivided in 1921 with six of them having a house or building on them. During World War One 35,000 South Australians served in the armed forces and 6,000 were killed. After the war about 4,000 took up soldier settlement blocks but most of these were small fruit blocks in the Riverland or larger pastoral blocks in the South East. Trooper Phillip Wheaton of the Third Light Horse Regiment purchased 904 acres including the old Hummocks station homestead, outbuildings, shearers’ quarters etc for £5,130 in 1921. His descendants farmed this property until 1997. In 2018 Andrew and Rosemary Michael and family purchased the 15 acres around the homestead to run it as an accommodation and function centre. Hummocks homestead from 1858 must be one of only a dozen or so homesteads built in the 1850s in South Australia and still occupied. It is a very unique property with a fascinating history. |
| 撮影日 | 2019-04-06 16:55:03 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
| タグ | |
| 撮影地 | Gleeson Hill, South Australia, Australia 地図 |
| カメラ | DSC-HX90V , SONY |
| 露出 | 0.003 sec (1/320) |
| 開放F値 | f/3.5 |