Baroota. South Australia. The public hall. Used as a government school 1924 to the closure of Baroota School in 1942. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Baroota. South Australia. The public hall. Used as a government school 1924 to the closure of Baroota School in 1942. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Baroota. The area along the foothills of the Flinders Ranges was taken out in leaseholds in the early 1850s. In 1853 Sidney and James Yeates took out the leasehold along Baroota Creek further north along what is now Mambray Creek. When the Baroota run was sold in 1862 by the Yeates brothers it covered 56,000 acres carrying 10,000 sheep. The Baroota run was bought by William Salter of Angaston. The sale noted the good water resources and noted that the property was well grassed. In the 1870s this leasehold was resumed for closer settlement and farming. The Hundred of Baroota is directly across the Flinders Ranges from the town of Melrose. Between the wheat lands of the coastal plains and Melrose is Mt Remarkable and Mt Remarkable National Park. Mt Remarkable is one of the highest points in SA (961 metres (3,153 ft.) and certainly the wettest point north of Adelaide (average rainfall around 600mm p.a. at Alligator Gorge). It was Edward John Eyre the explorer who named the peak in 1840. Alligator Creek rises in Mt Remarkable National Park and joins tributaries to become Mambray Creek as it leaves the Flinders Ranges to cross the plains. The Hundred of Baroota was declared in 1878 and included the settlements of Mambray Creek and Baroota but neither really exists these days. Baroota homestead and station was established on Mambray Creek and the small town of Baroota was established near Baroota Creek which also rises in Mt Remarkable National Park. Baroota Creek as dammed to from Baroota reservoir the third northern reservoir when it was completed in 1921. Like Bundaleer and Beetaloo reservoirs it was built to provide water for Port Pirie and Yorke Peninsula. There is no public access to Baroota reservoir and it is not used for reticulated water supply. It is maintained as an emergency supply if the Morgan to Whyalla pipeline fails at any time. Baroota holds 6.14 gigalitres. It is a third bigger is size than each of the Barossa and Warren reservoirs. When the farmers took over the lands of the plains they almost immediately wanted schools for their children. To the south of the Hundred is Telowie and Port Germein. Baroota weatherboard school opened in 1881 in the southern part of the Hundred. When petitioned in 1924 for a new school the Education Department refused to oblige but agreed if the farmers built a new school room the Department would use it. In 1925 a new stone school room opened at Baroota in the Baroota stone hall. The stone hall was built earlier and had new windows installed by the Education Department in the 1920s to provide more light for the school children. The Education Department was the tenant of the community hall. The opening was followed by a euchre party. With declining enrolments the school closed in 1942 but the school at Mambray Creek continued to operate. The old hall survived but is now a derelict ruin near the railway line. Another school was operated in the north west section of the Hundred called Baroota Whim School as a well was located here. It opened in 1883 and operated to 1939 in the Bible Christian Methodist Church there. The church was erected in 1879 and was still in use in 1979. The other school in the Hundred of Baroota was the Mambray Creek School. It opened in 1881 as the Hundred of Baroota School but then became the Mambray School in 1890 and the Mambray Creek School in 1892. The school opened and closed several times and re-opened in the Mambray Creek Hall in 1906 as the Mambray School. It closed in 1942 because a new weatherboard Mambray Creek School had opened in 1939 taking away students. This was built because five railway cottages were built at the Mambray Creek railway station in 1937 near the general store there. The weatherboard Mambray Creek School building, which still exists, operated until 1972. So apart from the Mambray Creek galvanised iron Hall, The Baroota Whim church/school and the stone Baroota Hall no other public buildings or facilities were built in the Hundred of Baroota. The main surviving homestead is the Baroota Station homestead ruins.Baroota homestead and station was taken up by John and Sidney Yeates in 1853 and then Walter Salter of Saltram winery at Angaston from 1862. Salter called his house in Angaston Mamre Brook. Salter paid £5,000 leasehold property and homestead and shearing shed etc at Baroota covering 42,000 acres carrying 10,000 sheep. He named his house there Mamre and his son ran the property of Baroota station. At some stage it is believed that it was altered to Mambray which was also the name given to the stream down from Alligator Gorge- Mambray Creek. Yeates sold Baroota run to Slater in 1862. The property was located on Mambray Creek but the drought of 1864 saw most of the sheep flock perish. In 1864 the annual rental paid by William Salter for the leasehold was over £1,100 and when Mr Goyder visited it in October 1864 to assess drought conditions it had excellent grass but only 4,000 sheep. By December 1865 the run had no grass at all. But by September 1866, when Salter sold the leasehold, it was carrying nearly 9,000 sheep. Salter wanted £52,000 for the run but no bidder came forward. By 1868 Mr Tennant of Eyre Peninsula owned the run with Mr Forester as the manager but by 1872 when a shepherd named John Griffiths went missing and was later found dead the station was owned by Messer Davenport and Morphett. Their station manager Henry Hobbs at Baroota suddenly in 1876. The sheep station lasted until the government resumed the leasehold for farming in January 1878. Land in the northern half of the Hundred was sold in March 1878. Some of this land sold for £6 per acre but most sold for £4 per acre. A few months later the press was saying these farmers had paid two or three times the value of the land. The first freehold land buyers on 29 March 1878 were D Beyer, T Robinson, G Crittenden, U Whittle, J Thomas, M O’Dea, J White, A Thiele, C Wulkte, J Orchard and J Binnie. Mr Flugge purchased the Baroota head station. The homestead was then occupied until after 1940 as a farm house and was still mainly intact when the government purchase land for the Mt Remarkable National Park in 1969. Mt Remarkable National Park was gazetted in 1972. It is now the ruins of the homestead remain with stone walls and roughhewn native pine uprights which were probably plastered over or white washed. It its time it comprised six main rooms with cement floored verandas. It is now maintained by the Friends of Mt Remarkable National Park adjacent to a camp site. There is a station cemetery on the northern side of Mambray Creek and it contains graves from the station days and the farming days. The headstone includes one for Henry Hobbs 1876, John Salter 1863, Charles Jones 1874 and then Johann Raneberg 1883 and his wife Maria 1894, and William Spencer 1891 and his wife Mary 1901. |
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