Gordon on the Willochra Plains in the Flinders Ranges. All that remains of the ghost town of Gordon are a few marble headstones in the cemetery. The last burial was in 1969.. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Gordon on the Willochra Plains in the Flinders Ranges. All that remains of the ghost town of Gordon are a few marble headstones in the cemetery. The last burial was in 1969.. / denisbin
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-改変禁止 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Gordon. Like other towns on the Willochra Plains this former wheat farming centre was proclaimed in 1879 following a few years of above average rainfall when the government decided this marginal pastoral land could be opened up for farming. Leasehold land was resumed, surveyed and then put for sale as part of the Hundred of Kanyaka. This was against the advice of the Surveyor General George Goyder who had developed his line of demarcation between farming and pastoral lands back in 1864. The town was named by Governor Jervois after a member of his family which is what he usually did – Amyton, Carrieton, Johnburgh, Hammond, Cradock etc were all named after his family members. He named it after his brother Gordon. The town was near Wirreanda Creek and when the Great Northern Railway came through here in 1880 the station as named Wirreanda! Within a year or so the town had 25 buildings, mainly in stone including the Gordon Hotel, a general store, blacksmith, baker and Bible Christian Methodist Church which was a weatherboard structure only. The state school was completed in 1881 and Catholic Church was built after soon after in 1884. This Catholic Church was replaced with a stone one in 1894. It closed around 1943. The Post Office began in one of the two general stores. Within a few years the rainfall reverted to its usual pattern and the dreams and hopes of the farmers were dashed. The rain did not follow the plough. Most also ran sheep and they provided some income. In the late 1880s locusts and then rabbits destroyed what crops tried farmers tried to grow. Many walked off their lands and the Willochra Plains were soon scattered with deserted stone homesteads. No evidence of them remains today. The school closed in 1928 after several temporary earlier closures and as the former farming properties were amalgamated some stayed on as graziers. When the school closed the hotel was still trading and the two churches were open for worship but the hotel was struggling to survive. It continued into the 1930s and a major town wedding in the Catholic Church took place in 1937 followed by a wedding reception in the Gordon Hotel. It might have been the last event in the hotel which closed in 1942. In 1947 the Gordon Hotel building of 16 main rooms was put up for sale. No buyers came forth and the stone was used to build a new hospital in Quorn. The Methodist Church closed around 1929 and was sold in 1930. Those who were not buried in the Gordon cemetery left the town in the 1930s although the last resident (the Post Mistress) stayed on until 1957. The last burial in the cemetery was in 1969. Today all that can be seen are some piles of rubble and some headstones in the distant cemetery. |
| 撮影日 | 2020-07-10 13:24:09 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| 撮影地 | Gordon, South Australia, Australia 地図 |
| カメラ | DSC-HX90V , SONY |
| 露出 | 0.003 sec (1/400) |
| 開放F値 | f/6.4 |
| 焦点距離 | 123 mm |