Tatura. Town mosaic of irrigation and water usage. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Tatura. Town mosaic of irrigation and water usage. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Tatura. Population 4,000.This town takes its name from an Aboriginal Yorta Yorta word meaning “lagoon with rushes”. The town has always depended on water from the Goulburn River for irrigation of pastures and fruit blocks. It was gazetted as a town in 1874 and in 1888 the Rodney Irrigation Trust building was erected. Tatura was made the administration centre of the Rodney Shire in 1886. Like other Goulburn Valley towns it had extensive dairying by the early 20th century and a butter factory and fruit blocks and a cannery. Today the town focuses on its role during the two World Wars which had a dramatic effect on the population. Firstly, one of their local young men, Private Robert Mactier was awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery in France during the closing stages of World War One. His single handed actions allowed his battalion to move to their advance trenches and then eventually to the capture of St Quentin from the Germans. Las he did not survive the war. A bronze statue erected in 2014 commemorates the bravery of Private Mactier in the Victoria Cross Memorial Gardens Hogan Street. Then during World War Two seven internment camps were established in Tatura by the Federal government. Four held Australian civilians suspected of enemy sympathies and three held repatriated solders and prisoners of war from elsewhere including a number of Germans Nazis from Palestine. The Tatura Irrigation and Wartime Camps Museum only contains materials and information about Tatura and district and is a highly rated museum. It explains the role of irrigation works, provides information about the town and its history and the wartime camps and the internees and the work they did. Tatura also has some grand buildings and those located in Hogan Street are the Courthouse built in 1891, the old bakery dating from 1878, The Victory Hall opened in 1925 by the Governor of Victoria, the Mechanics Institute Hall built in 1882, Sacred Heart Catholic Church built in 1889 and rebuilt in Romanesque style in 1912, the Sisters of Mercy Convent which opened in 1941, St Marys Catholic College built in 1901 with a beautiful cast iron lacework balcony and the Museum. Further along is the Presbyterian Church built in 1912 and the original Presbyterian built in 1882. Because of the high number of Germans both military and Australian residents interned here there is a German Prisoner of War Cemetery outside Tatura. The cemetery maintained by the Australian government on behalf of the German government and contains 250 graves at 153 Winter Road. It mainly has graves of German residents interned during World War One, some German missionaries, some POWs from World War Two and some Australian German residents from World War Two. Some buried here died at other camps around Australia were re buried here if their families agreed to it. 239 burials were civilians and 11 were POWs. Most of the burials occurred during World War One and most of those died in early 1919 of the covid of that day- Spanish influenza. Tatura so has some fine mosaic murals telling the story of the town in Hogan Street and the occasional Moooving cow sculptures. |
| 撮影日 | 2022-01-11 09:29:30 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| カメラ | DSC-HX90V , SONY |
| 露出 | 0.033 sec (1/30) |
| 開放F値 | f/3.5 |