Flinders Ranges South Australia. Details of the Cradock Catholic Church built in 1883. The town established 1878 for wheat growing in semi desert land. Town soon deserted. Now almost a ghost town. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Flinders Ranges South Australia. Details of the Cradock Catholic Church built in 1883. The town established 1878 for wheat growing in semi desert land. Town soon deserted. Now almost a ghost town. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Cradock. The Hundred of Wirreanda was one of few hundreds in this area to have a town- Cradock. Local pastoralists asked the government in 1878 to survey a town on the Travelling Stock Route where it crossed Wirreanda Creek. Some town lots were sold in March 1879 with the town being named by Governor Jervois. He had already used his children’s names for other towns- Carrieton (Caroline), Amyton (Amy), Hammond and Johnburgh( John.) The town of Gordon on the Willochra Plain was named after Governor Jervois’ brother. Because Governor Jervois had worked in the military base at Cradock in South Africa, he named this new town near Hawker after that place. Cradock in South Africa had been named after Sir John Cradock a former Governor of the South Africa province. St Raphael’s Catholic Church Carrieton 1882. Old general store in Carrieton 1880s. Yanyarrie Whim in Carrieton 1853. Former Catholic Church in Cradock- 1883. Despite being 100 kms from Goyder’s Line and being on the edge of salt bush country the small town soon attracted 2 blacksmiths, a store keeper and a post master. When Hawker was established in 1880, the store keepers of Cradock, the Jackson brothers, opened a store in Hawker. In 1881 two hotels were built in Cradock. One was later demolished, but the Cradock Hotel still survives. But by 1881 the crops were failing; the country was dry; the good rain and seasons had gone. No good rains fell again from 1881 to 1889. Yet Cradock continued as there was optimism that good rains would eventually return. The Catholic Church opened in 1883. The government school in Cradock opened in 1881- the first government school in the northern areas. 27 pupils attended the school in its first year.In 1881 the grasshoppers arrived to eat what the drought had not wilted. As the drought continued the rabbits ate everything left. Yet the government was surveying and declaring new hundreds as the northern railway line worked its way up to Marree, beyond Leigh Creek. In 1883 crops still failed but the first (of only two) agricultural shows were held in Cradock. Thereafter the agricultural show went to Hawker. The weatherboard Cradock Wesleyan Methodist Church opened in 1884 until it closed in 1924 when it was replaced with a stone church in 1925. In 1885 there was a mouse plague. Later that year a plague of locusts came to Cradock and finished off the meagre crops. In 1888 terrible dust storms blanketed the town. Farmers petitioned the government for help with their mortgages. It was so dry, with so little herbage that teamsters could not make the journey to Blinman. In 1889 those that remained on the land welcomed the 517 mm of rain in Cradock, and the harvest was good. The average rainfall is 250mm. Then a big drought set in from 1896-1902. Cradock was back to 150mm of rainfall at best, year after year. In 1894 the Anglican Church opened in Cradock; it was demolished in 1958. Jackson’s store closed before 1897. Most families left the district in the mid 1890s. The Wirreanda Hotel closed in 1914. Foxes joined the list of district pests in 1907 soon being in plague numbers. In later years the rainfall got down to 58 mm in 1940! The Roman Catholic Church closed in 1970 and was deconsecrated in 1976 and sold as a private residence to Annette Frankel. Cradock School was held in the old police station from 1929-1949 when it closed. |
| 撮影日 | 2009-10-02 14:25:50 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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