Minlaton on Yorke Peninsula. Show ground agricultural exhibition halls built between 1880 and 1928. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Minlaton on Yorke Peninsula. Show ground agricultural exhibition halls built between 1880 and 1928. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Minlaton –Barley Capital of the world.The story of Minlaton begins in 1846 when Alfred Weaver took up a leasehold in Oyster Bay (Stansbury) and sent the first white settler to the bottom of Yorke Peninsula. He was Charles Parrington. Parrington came to SA to work with Colonel William Light’s survey team but he soon left that. The Oyster Bay leasehold run covered 60 square miles. But soon afterwards in 1847 Thomas Giles and George Anstey took up an adjoining run called Gum Flat which covered 167 square miles. It was so named as it had the only stand of River Red Gums (Eucalyptus camaldulensis) on Yorke Peninsula. The remains of the Gum Flat run stills stands on the outskirts of Minlaton. At its peak this run carried 44,000 sheep. Thomas Giles married Mary O’Halloran in 1838 and one of their sons named Thomas O’Halloran Giles married a daughter of Robert and Joanna Barr-Smith. Gum Flat leasehold was resumed by the government in 1874 for closer settlement. Surveying began in the Hundred of Ramsay to the east of Minlaton in 1872. The Hundred of Minlacowie was proclaimed in March 1874 and the first farms were sold in August of that year. Some land sold for £2 or £3 per acre instead of the usual £1 per acre. The government reserved land for a town to be created for the Hundred. It was located near some fresh water and planned as a rectangular grid as was usual and the old Gum Flat property was surveyed as part of the suburban lands of the east of the town of Minlaton. The new town was gazetted in January 1876 but land was not sold until 24th August 1876. 160 town allotments were sold at that time. Most allotment sold between £5 and £20 but excitement was high and some blocks went for between £80 and £140! The government received over £2,000 for the sale of Minlaton.Minlaton district began in 1874 as a wheat growing area. Barley was a difficult crop to grow but after the general use of superphosphates from the 1890s more and more barley was grown, mainly as a fodder crop. From 1913 onwards prized malting barley was grown around Minlaton with great success. By the 1920s barley had replaced wheat as the dominant crop. Barley likes the higher humidity during the ripening stage which comes with the sea breezes of southern Yorke Peninsula. By the 1960s Yorke Peninsula was growing 75% of Australia’s barley crop. Minlaton was the barley capital of Australia in those days but it is no longer the barley capital of Australia! New easier to grow varieties of barley means it is grown across SA and in other grain growing states too. The Minlaton Information Centre is on Harvest Corner in the former barley store house which used to have an attached flour mill. Grain from this area was carted to Port Minlacowie. The major attraction in Minlaton is the Captain Harry Butler Memorial which has the extraordinary Red Devil preserved inside. Captain Harry Butler purchased this plane from the British government and shipped it to South Australia in 1919 and used it to carry airmail from Adelaide to his home town of Minlaton on 6 August 1919. This was the first flight across sea in the Southern Hemisphere by any plane. The Red Devil was then flown by Captain Butler for joy rides, barnstorming and peace loan promotion. The plane was modified in 1931 and fitted with 110 horsepower De Havilland Gypsy engine. It was last flown in 1945. It is believed that approximately 200 of these Bristol monoplanes were manufactured and this plane is the only one of this type in existence anywhere in the world. It was designed by the British government with great urgency in 1916 to meet the pressing need for a fast, single seat fighter aeroplane with the greatest possible fire power.Some historic buildings in Minlaton starting with those in the Main Street.•The Catholic Church was the last of the early church to be built as it was only constructed in 1905. •Minlaton Museum. It was built as a general store in 1889 but most of that is now the modern cafe. It became a Eudunda Farmers Store in 1947 until 1959. In 1970 it became a café and museum. •The Police Station. The white painted house was the early police station built in 1883. Additions to it were made in 1936 and the modern Court House next door was built in 1962. •The Minlaton Post Office. A service began in temporary buildings in 1878. The current stone Post Office was built in 1912. •The Minlaton Hotel. It was built as a single storey building in 1877. It was one of the first public buildings in the town. The upper storey was added around 1920. •On the main intersection of the town is the barley store house which is now the Harvest Corner shop, information centre and gallery. It was in 1903 as barley growing became popular. •The first Methodist Church was built in 1877 but demolished for the current modern building. •The Town Hall. It began as the single storey Institute (1881) set back from the main street. In 1890 a front section was added. It was remodelled into a grand two storey Town Hall in 1939 when the Council Chambers were moved into the building. The Minlaton Council was formed in 1888.•At then end of the Main Street is the hospital built from 1905 onwards.•The agricultural show grounds complete with a limestone wall. The two storey grand stand and show pavilions were built in local limestone blocks. •The former Minlaton Primary School in Second St. Minlaton School opened in 1878. An extension was made to it in 1880 and a new school erected in 1924. Minlaton Higher Primary began in 1936 and Minlaton High School began in 1945 in a church hall with the first high school being built in 1954. The primary school closed in 1991 when it merged with the High School. •Opposite the former school is the Masonic Lodge built in 1908. The Lodge was formed in 1878. •The Anglican Church. St Benedict’s Anglican Church was built in 1886. The parish hall next door was built in 1925. Anglican services began in the Institute in 1881. •The Baptist Church was a very early church built in 1877. The front porch with the three Gothic style windows was added in 1947 for the 70th anniversary of the church. On the southern side is the Baptist manse built in 1919. |
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