Echunga. St Mary's Anglican Church. Built in 1851. The glebe land for church and cemetery was granted by Jacob Hagen the founder of Echunga who wanted it to be a model Quaker village. It is still in use. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Echunga. St Mary's Anglican Church. Built in 1851. The glebe land for church and cemetery was granted by Jacob Hagen the founder of Echunga who wanted it to be a model Quaker village. It is still in use. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Echunga – the only Quaker village in SA.The town here takes its name from an Aboriginal word meaning “close by”. Echunga was part of a Special Survey of 1839 called the Three Brothers Survey for John Barton Hack. Hack was a wheeler and dealer and lived from 1805 to 1884. He tried many business ventures (land investment, whaling, mining, dairying, cattle etc.) but he seldom succeeded at these ventures. He arrived in the Mt Barker district in 1838 where he squatted illegally on some land with a herd of cattle. He was removed by Dutton and the Mt Barker Survey so he immediately paid £4,000 for his Special Survey of the adjoining lands. He then set about setting up tenant farmers on his land although he also sold some land at £4 per acre whilst he had paid just £1. Upon his lands he built his own homestead where Echunga now stands. But Hack (the suburb of Hackney was named after him) over stretched himself with his borrowings and he also over paid his employees. He was a generous man and later donated land in Pennington Terrace for the Quakers. In 1841 his lands were foreclosed by mortgage holders including Jacob Hagen who took over the Echunga lands. Hack was a Methodist in his early days but soon converted to Quakerism. Hagen was also a Quaker and at Echunga he tried to establish a Quaker village with vineyards, wheat fields, dairy herds and tenant farmers. But he too was unsuccessful in establishing a proper Quaker village but he did establish the township. It was laid out in 1849 and it was Hagen himself who built the Hagen Arms Hotel in that same year. He made wine from his vineyards and Echunga Hock was once served to Queen Victoria. The hotel is now classified as a heritage building because of its association with Jacob Hagen. Hagen gave land in Echunga for the Anglican Church and cemetery and he helped establish the Echunga District Council in 1853. St Mary’s Anglican Church was opened very early in 1851 on a commanding position on top of a hill. The Hagen Arms Hotel was built as a fine two storey hotel with a parapet hiding the roof line and a diagonal entrance door but this was altered in the early 20th century. The upstairs balcony and a new façade was created then. Near the hotel as one walks down the hill and Main Street you can see is the Pressed Tin House with an unusual corner room. Opposite that is the old coaching depot with extensive yards surrounded with stone walls. Nearby is a charming cottage with decorative window shades painted green. Further along you will see the Echunga Institute which was built in 1879 with Mrs Goyder the wife of the Surveyor General laying the foundation stone. It was opened by George Goyder himself in 1880. He donated books to the Institute library. An old stone projection room for movies has been added to the façade. Opposite is the Wesley Methodist Church which was erected in 1857. This early chapel was replaced with the current Methodist Church in 1884. It is now the Uniting Church. The land for this church was donated by Sophia Hagen one of the daughters of Jacob Hagen. |
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| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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