Junee. Monte Cristo House built in 1884 and supposedly haunted. Side view with fine cast iron balcony lacework. . : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Junee. Monte Cristo House built in 1884 and supposedly haunted. Side view with fine cast iron balcony lacework. . / denisbin
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| 説明 | Monte Cristo.This beautiful restored 19th century mansion is known as Australia’s most haunted house and one of the most haunted houses in the world. Why? Because so many tragedies occurred in the house and some “ten distressed souls” are not yet a peace? Who were they? In 1961 a caretaker was murdered in the house; earlier a maid fell to her death from the balcony; a stable boy was killed in a fire; a boy died falling down the stairs; and the owner’s baby daughter was accidentally dropped down the stairs by a nanny and a pregnant woman died in childbirth in the house. Supposedly the long living mistress of the house, Elizabeth Crawley is another ghost? Is this enough to make a house haunted? There are two houses on the property which began as a pastoral estate by Christopher Crawley who took up his first 840 acres here in 1876. He built a homestead in 1876 which later became the servants’ quarters, kitchen and dairy. Then in 1878 the southern railway to Albury and Melbourne passed through here and the government resumed 80 acres of his lands for a town. At that time Crawley opened the Railway Hotel (now the Junee) by the railway siding. He sold some lands some around the new fledgling township of Jewnee (after an early pastoral estate using a Wiradjuri word) at high prices. The town name was soon changed to Junee. By 1884 Crawley had sold his successful hotel and with the proceeds he built a grand Victorian two storey residence with cast iron lace work on the verandas. He became a gentleman farmer. He had seven children and donated land for the Catholic Church. Christopher Crawley died in 1910 and his wife in 1933. The family lived in the house until 1948. The contents were sold in 1952 and the house left vacant which enticed vandals to almost destroy it. It was purchased with over two acres by the Ryan family in 1963 and they began the difficult task of a full restoration only finishing that in the 1980s. Junee. Leopold De Salis was one of the first pioneer squatters in the Junee region in 1845. He named his run Junee but he did not live there. His homestead was Cuppacumbalong near Queanbeyan. He sold his Junee run three years later. It is believed that choo-nee was an Aboriginal word for frog. After the Robertson Land Act was passed in 1861 selectors came and gradually selected parts of the Junee run as small farms and the Junee property was greatly reduced in size. An unofficial post office opened in 1862 and the village of Junee on the Sydney to Melbourne road was gazetted in 1863. The village had a dozen or so residents until 1868 when gold was found at Junee Reefs 19 kms to the north. By 1869 there were 100 residents a hotel, a post office and a butcher shop in Junee. Junee’s heyday was in 1870 but miners soon left for other gold mines. But the Junee mines continued quite strongly in the 1880s and 1890s and only closed after World War One. But when the main south railway line to the Riverina (Wagga Wagga) came through here in 1878 it by passed Junee by 5 miles and a new settlement(Crawley’s) grew up around the railway station. The original Junee was then renamed Old Junee. The new town by the railway station was soon named Junee. The Post Office tells the tale of this name change. In 1878 it was Junee Railway Station Post Office. In 1885 it became Junee Junction Post Office and finally Junee Post Office in 1893. So modern day Junee officially was laid out in 1878. But in the 1880s Old Junee still had a population of 100 but Junee had 1,200 residents. Junee was made up of Crawley’s Town (1878), Dobbyn’s Town (1881) and Loftus (1878 the government town). The government architect designed a Post Office for Junee by the railway station in 1886 and it opened in 1888. A single storey addition was added in 1909 and further additions in 1927. Junee’s Post Office is now heritage listed. With three town subdivisions, a railway station, a Post Office and gold mines 19 kms away, the town grew rapidly in the 1880s. |
| 撮影日 | 2021-05-07 14:19:25 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| カメラ | DSC-HX90V , SONY |
| 露出 | 0.001 sec (1/800) |
| 開放F値 | f/3.5 |