Arden Vale near Quorn in the Flinders Ranges. The lone Scottish headstone of Hugh Proby of Kanyaka sheep Station. Founded by Proby 1851. He downed 1852. He was son of the Earl of Carysfort. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Arden Vale near Quorn in the Flinders Ranges. The lone Scottish headstone of Hugh Proby of Kanyaka sheep Station. Founded by Proby 1851. He downed 1852. He was son of the Earl of Carysfort. / denisbin
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| 説明 | The caption of Hugh Proby's grave reads: Sacred to the Memory Hugh Proby Third son of the Earl of Carysfort who drowned while crossing Willochra Creek August 30th 1852 aged 24 years.This tablet was placed over his grave by his brothers and sisters in the year 1858.Arden Vale and Warren Gorge. This district in the Hundred of Yarrah was declared in 1880 and surveyed by 1884. It was settled, mainly by German settlers in 1880. The first government school here opened in 1882. This stone school room was built for the government in 1906 by the Schumann family. It closed as a school in 1959. One of the first settlers at Arden Vale was Martin Eckert who settled here in 1878 according to their family memorial but this might be incorrect, nevertheless the Eckerts farmed on its land into the 1980s. The family erected a fine stone cairn monument to the Eckert pioneers to acknowledge 100 years of Eckert settlement in 1978. Farming in this district was never easy and some farmers surrendered their farms back to the government in 1885. Not far from the Eckert memorial is the entrance to Warren Gorge one of the scenic gorges of the Flinders Ranges which leads to the western desert flats around Lake Torrens. Warren Gorge and this region was the ancestral lands of Nukunu Aboriginal people. With almost permanent water holes and wildlife this gorge like others provide camping and ceremonial sites for the Nukunu people. In 1801 when Captain Matthew Flinders and crew were charting the South Australia coast they explored a little inland climbing about 15 miles to the top of Mt Brown south of Quorn. From that vantage point Flinders named the nearby peak of Mt Arden (844 metres) after his great grandmother. When pastoral leases were taken up around 1850 the sheep station here was named Mt Arden run. Further to the south of Warren Gorge visible from the road is Dutchmans Stern Mountain at 837 metres which also named in 1801 by Flinders as he thought it resembled the stern of an old Dutch sailing ship. Warren Gorge, however was named in the 1880s after a local farming family the Warren brothers. Further along Mt Arden Creek between which is a tributary of Willochra Creek is Proby’s grave site. With good lands in the mdi north and the Adelaide Hills the far north and Flinders was not a first choice for pastoralists. In 1845/56 the most northerly run was Pekina run near what is now Orroroo. By 1851 there were several runs in the Flinders with Hugh Proby at Kanyaka run, the Ragless brothers at Balcarrie near Willochra and White and Polhill at Mt Arden run. Hugh Proby was the third son of the Earl of Carysfort in Scotland. He took up Kanyaka pastoral run in 1851 but sadly in 1852 during a flood in Willochra Creek he drowned at age 24 years. He was buried in a lonely spot near Mt Ragless. In 1858 his brothers and sisters had an engraved headstone sent out from Scotland to mark his grave. The grave was consecrated by an Anglican minister in 1894 and in 1898 Proby’s sister Lady Hamilton and her husband visited the grave. |
| 撮影日 | 2021-10-12 14:47:41 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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