Riverton., The bluestone Catholic Church. Opened in 1904. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Riverton., The bluestone Catholic Church. Opened in 1904. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Riverton. Located on the banks of the Gilbert River, this area was surveyed in 1853 although the first pastoralists had arrived in the area in the 1840s and they were Anstey and Giles to the south of the current town and Masters and Moorhouse to the north. The first white settlers were John Masters and Matthew Moorhouse who leased the land from around 1840 before it was surveyed. But in 1845 James Master had a 96 acre section surveyed so that he could purchase the freehold upon which he built Saddleworth Lodge his home station. James Masters ran the station with his nephew Charles Swindon and friend Dr Matthew Moorhouse. When the government resumed the leasehold in 1853 Masters purchased the sections near his homestead and subdivided part of his land to create the town of Riverton which he named. Streets were named Moorhouse, Masters, Horner (a friend and the first store keeper), and Swindon etc. The first building in the town was an unlicensed pub that opened in 1853. The following year, 1854 the town proper was established with a post office, telegraph office, and store. Masters returned to England for a trip in 1861 and died there so when his widow died at Saddleworth Lodge in 1866 the property was left to his nephew Swindon who in turn left it to his sons. But before he died Masters donated land in his new town in 1855 to the Bible Christians for a church (now Lutheran), a pioneer cemetery and the original Anglican Church which was replaced in 1858 with the current Anglican Church on a different site. The land donated by Masters to the Anglicans then became the Anglican Parish Hall and first town school. That building still stands as a private residence. Soon saddlers, wheelwrights and blacksmiths set up in the town to meet the needs of any bullock or mule dray carrying copper from Burra to Kapunda. One of the early businesses was the wheelwright shop of Ernst August Scholz. He established his business in 1865, built a house in 1872 and added a blacksmith shop in 1886. His shops are now the Riverton Museum. Scholz came from Silesia and his sons carried on the business after his death in 1919. The business finally closed in 1966 when it was converted to a museum (1981). One of the early important industries was the town flourmill built by Moorhouse and Horner with encouragement from Masters. It opened around 1858 in Mill Street near the old railway line. The wheat milled here was carted to Burra and other northern centres. A chaff mill was established in the late 1860s after the arrival of the railway and chaffed railed to Adelaide. One important local farmer who assisted wheat growers across the state not just in the Gilbert River Valley was Albert Molineux. He eventually went on to establish the Agricultural Bureaux of SA and to publish the important newspaper called Farm and Garden in which he promoted the usage of superphosphate to improve wheat yields. The town boomed once the railway from Adelaide arrived in 1869. The most outstanding building in Riverton is the Railway Station, now a private residence. In 1918 a spur line was built from Riverton to Clare and eventually to Spalding in 1924. The first wooden station buildings burnt down a few years after their opening and the present stone structure was commenced in 1875, and extended on many occasions over the next forty years. Because Riverton was a railway refreshment stop and all trains stopped for meals and snacks, the station complex grew and grew. The platform became one of the longest in the state. On the 22 March 1921 it became the scene of an assassination, the only successful assassination in Australia! A politician travelling from Broken Hill stopped at the refreshments bar along with other passengers when a crazed former Russian called Koorman Tomayeff opened fire. Percy Brookfield MP of Broken Hill was killed along with two other passengers and several passengers were wounded. 40 shots were fired. Mr Brookfield fired twice at Tomayeff but missed. Tomayeff was tried and certified insane and died in 1948 in Glenside mental hospital. But the Riverton railway yards include a massive stone goods shed and it was used for early train repairs too. It was erected around 1869 when the railway opened. The last passenger train passed through Riverton in 1988.An indication of the size and affluence of Riverton comes from the history of schools in the town. Early private schools began in 1856. A public town school was built on the current school site in 1866. After the passing of the Free, Compulsory and Secular Education Act of 1875 this school became a state school and it was extended significantly in 1879. It is still the Riverton Primary School. Riverton was one of the first country towns to have a high school. Continuation classes for secondary students were conducted at the primary school from early in the 20th century and the public high school was first opened in 1913 in the old Anglican Parish Hall. It started with 23 boys and 9 girls. By 1920 the high school had over 50 pupils and a new purpose built high school was opened in 1921. It is still used. Near the primary school is the relatively recent Catholic Church which opened in 1904. Among the buildings worth noting in Riverton are several in the Main Street (Torrens Street), starting from the northern end of the street:•The Anglican Parish Hall. James Masters had a stone school built on this corner site around 1858 at his own expense and it was recognised an official school in 1860. A new town school on a different site was approved in 1865 and this building became derelict. It was demolished a few years later and the Parish Hall was built on the site in 1872. The kindergarten room was added to the Parish Hall in 1929. Riverton High School operated in this Hall from its opening in 1913 until the new school was constructed across the street in 1921.•St Matthews Lutheran Church is a noteworthy Romanesque style church with semi-circular windows instead of the more usual Gothic arched windows. This symmetrical building began its life as the Bible Christian Church in 1872 on land donated by Masters to the Bible Christians in 1855 for an earlier church. The 1872 church became the Methodist Church in 1900 when the transept was added. In 1967 it became the Lutheran Church as a new Methodist Church was opened in the southern end of the Main Street. Note the pediment above the main door and the classical lines of the building. Adjacent is the pioneer garden cemetery which is well worth a look. The Anglican cemetery next door opened in 1855 on land donated by James Masters. Eighteen of the original headstones are still standing. The new 1870 cemetery is near the 1858 Anglican Church on the northern outskirts of Riverton. •Sandal Magna. This charming little two storey house with a Mintaro slate roof was built in 1871. At one stage the front downstairs rooms were used as a shop. It is listed on the state heritage register. •The old bakery built around 1871. A tiny building with one door and one nine paned window facing the street.• Riverton Post Office. This was opened in 1876, and the telephone exchange added in 1906. Although altered on the facade it is still a good colonial building. It is now a private post office. •Scholz Blacksmith Museum. Now the town museum. •The Riverton Arms Hotel. This single storey hotel was established in 1855 for the bullockies. It was licensed from 1857 and much of the present hotel dates from this early period. The first licensees were John and Frederick Hannaford. The Hannafords are still local citizens and Robert Hannaford is a nationally known artist of great repute. Hannaford was commissioned to paint many well-known public figures including former Governor General Sir William Deane, former Prime Minister Paul Keating, Dame Joan Sutherland, the late Dame Roma Mitchell, Lowitja O’Donoghue and Sir Donald Bradman. He has three times been the winner of the Archibald People’s Choice portraiture award in 1992, 1996 and 1998. In 2001 he painted the commemorative centenary sitting of parliament in the Royal Exhibition Buildings in Melbourne. •The Riverton Institute. This distinctive building was erected in 1874 as a single storey building. The upper floor was added in 1879 with a special balcony designed for use by the town mayor so the he could address the town citizenry! •The Central Hotel. A charming red brick and freestone, Federation style building with Art Deco and Art Nouveau features such as extensive leadlight in the windows, wooden balcony etc. Note the stylish central roof gable above one of the entrance doors which forms the symmetry of the façade with two veranda bays each side of it. This hotel originally opened as the Mill Inn but changed its name in 1900 when it was re-built as a Federation style hotel. It has excellent wrought iron lace work on the upper veranda. •The former Wesleyan Methodist Church now Uniting. This church was built in 1869 but upon Methodist union in 1900 it became a secondary church and the Bible Christian Church became the main Methodist Church. The Sunday school was held here between 1900 and 1963. In 1963 a newly built Methodist Church on the site become the sole Methodist Church in town and it became Uniting upon that union in 1977. |
| 撮影日 | 2019-11-06 10:08:00 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| 撮影地 | Riverton, South Australia, Australia 地図 |
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