Morgan. On the River Murray. Landseers warehouse which sent goods up the Murray and Darling rivers to outback New South Wales. Built late 19th century : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Morgan. On the River Murray. Landseers warehouse which sent goods up the Murray and Darling rivers to outback New South Wales. Built late 19th century / denisbin
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| 説明 | Morgan- River Port Town.This small forgotten place was once one of the busiest and most important ports in SA. Its wharf, which dates back to 1878 when the railway arrived from Eudunda and the town was first established, was once over 550 feet (168 m) long. But let’s go back to the beginning of white settlement. Captain Charles Sturt arrived here on February 21st 1830. The first documented leaseholders arrived in 1851. Early attempts at pastoralism were not successful, (too many dingoes and poisonous plants) but by 1856 Hermann Von Reiben was established near present day Morgan. A post office was set up here and known as Von Reiben’s locality. Von Reiben also established a small hotel on the Murray lagoon on what is now the railway and ferry reserve. The nearest town to this emerging Morgan was Blanchetown. The town was established in 1878 as a government town. 213 town allotments were surveyed and auctioned. About half the blocks were sold at the first auction. The wharf was built in 1878 and trains started to arrive at a non-existent town! This changed within a couple of years. By then there were five steam cranes working 24 hours a day on the wharves and six trains arrived from Adelaide daily. River boat fleet owners established themselves here, and some big commercial traders. Landseer and Sons from Milang were one of the first to establish a warehouse here, and it still stands today as the local Museum. (The warehouse housed grain, wood, wool, hides, dried fruit, dairy produce, groceries etc). The Murray Shipping Limited was the main company that survived and provided river boats for the lucrative river trade up to Wentworth and even higher up the Darling River. But many boats were owned and operated by individual captains who still found enough work and cartage to make a living. Boats from companies like Murray Shipping Ltd even carted all the building materials upstream for the construction of the Bourke Hotel. Murray Shipping also had its own slipways and workshops down on the river’s edge for its numerous barges and steamers. At one time this site employed dozens of workers.The heyday of Morgan, however was short lived- about twenty years. By 1897 railway lines had snaked out from Sydney across the western plains to the Darling River area, and railway lines had also crossed the Murray from Melbourne and reached out into the Riverina area of NSW. Despite this the river trade continued for many more years, but at a lesser volume. Not all sheep stations were close to rail heads. Morgan handled less NSW, QLD and VIC wool and goods by then and the inter colonies had become inter states in 1901. Some wool was still being shipped downstream to Morgan from the Darling as late as the early 1930s from around 70 sheep runs and stopping places upstream from Wentworth. 1931 was the last year for big loads of wool to be shipped down to Morgan. Old Morgan Wharf. Morgan railway station and station master house.As the river boat traded died away in the 1920s (road truck transportation took over then) many of the boats were used to cart construction materials for the river locks upstream as far away as Renmark. Others were used to cart freshwater down to Tailem Bend for the steam trains because before the barrages and locks were built the Murray water was salty as far up the river as Mannum. Prior to its demise, some river boats were also built in Morgan. One of the last to operate for commercial trade reasons on the river was the “Kookaburra” owned by the Diener family, which operated until the 1956 Murray River floods. By the 1950s, however, there were steamers operating on the Murray from Morgan as pleasure craft, tourist ventures and fishing vessels. In the early days Morgan was also one of the many stopping places for the steamer “Etona.” The “Etona” operated from 1891- 1912 with funding from the Anglican Church as a sort of “floating” church that went up the river to Chowilla. The chaplain on board would conduct church services, weddings, funerals, baptism etc. A second vessel called the “Etona” was built in Milang for the Anglican Church. That vessel had a small chapel on board with seating for six. St Peters Anglican Church in Morgan became the base from which the “Etona” worked. Like many river steamers the Etona became derelict, and then was rebuilt by enthusiasts in Echuca, Victoria. Boats and barges built in the workshops, including registered tonnage and steam engine tonnage in Morgan were: Croupierbarge188185 tonEmeraldbarge190089 tonFederalsteamer190354 tonMerlesteamer1904112 tonRubysteamer1909313 tonSapphiresteamer190429 tonUkeebarge1910179 tonVenture IIsteamer1910204 tonSunbeamsteamer?19 tonThis information is taken from the book by J.W. R. White, Morgan Centenary 1878- 1978, published by the Morgan Centenary Committee. Naturally the town of Morgan prospered and grew quickly as it began life with a railway and a large wharf. The Terminus Hotel indicated that the train finished at Morgan and the other hotel was the Commercial and both were constructed in 1879. Until the Institute (1909) was built the Terminus Hotel was used for many social functions, and local council meetings until the Council Chambers were built in 1894. Nearby were general stores, a Police Station, a Customs House (SA was an independent colony in those days), a bank, Landseer’s warehouse, and a school. The old Customs House was located next to some old railway cottages on top of Billy Goat Hill in the town. The school was opened in 1878 and had fine stone buildings for classrooms by 1880. Enrolments peaked in 1927 when the school had 140 pupils. The school teacher’s house was built at the same time as the school in 1880. The Post Office was another essential town building. Although a postal service began from Big Bend in 1860, the Morgan post office was not opened until 1878. It handled all the mail for Wentworth in NSW and beyond, as well as SA mail. The post office was erected in 1912 and further extended in 1942. In 1888 a local council was formed. By then the town had a cemetery, a ferry service across the river, a bank, and chemist and butcher/baker shops. The Morgan Institute was erected in 1909, with further extensions as a war memorial in 1924. The hospital opened in 1921. From 1923 the town had a Eudunda Farmers’ Store. Apart from the social and business and government institutions in town, the churches always played an important role in the community. The first church in Morgan appears to be the Methodist church which was built in 1878 and is still used for services. Next came the Anglican Church of St Peter’s in 1894. By the 1930s the minister in charge was residing in Waikerie, a much larger town, and travelling to Morgan from there. The Catholics began services in Morgan in 1880 but they did not erect a church until 1926- St Ursula’s. Although Lutheran services for the United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Australia were held in the town from 1891 they were in private houses. In the 1920s services began in the local Methodist church with the UELCA Lutherans not building their own church until 1957. The Lutheran ELSA (Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Australia) began their services in Morgan in 1910 but their church was not built in 1933. The two Lutheran churches amalgamated in 1966 and the former St Andrews Lutheran Church became the new St Mark’s Lutheran. In terms of industry the town had a flour mill (Jackett’s) from 1900 to 1934 when it burnt down. The town’s first blacksmith opened in 1891 and operated for many years. The main employer of the town was the shipping companies, the warehouses like Landseer’s, and the railways. For a few years, from 1948 to 1957 the town even had a eucalyptus oil distillery operated for Faulding and Co chemists of Adelaide. The tourism industry got underway in Morgan in 1969 when the first house boats for hire began operating on the river. One last employer for the town was the pumping station for the Morgan to Whyalla pipe line. This engineering feat was officially opened in 1944. It involved the laying of 223 miles (360 kms) of concrete lined steel water pipes and four major pumping stations as the water had to be pumped higher than the township of Eudunda. 1,000 men were employed on this project and it came in at 12% UNDER budget. The system has been enlarged greatly since then. But all the water for the system is pumped from the Murray at Morgan. In more recent years Morgan has contracted further. The last freight river services finished in the 1950s and the last train travelled to Morgan in 1969. Even the availability of water for the pumping station is a problem these days. But Morgan will always be able to claim its place in SA history as the most important River Murray port in SA. Because of this, the railway line to Morgan was the most profitable in the state. The train service to Morgan ceased in 1969. |
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| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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