Palmer. The town was established in 1869 near the former Reedy C reek Copper mine. Developed by the Australian Mining Company and Sir Samuel Davenport. Old 18 paned store. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Palmer. The town was established in 1869 near the former Reedy C reek Copper mine. Developed by the Australian Mining Company and Sir Samuel Davenport. Old 18 paned store. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Palmer – Company Town in the Rain Shadow Country. Palmer was part of the 1845 Reedy Creek Special Mining Survey. In 1869 the Australian Mining Company decided to lease as much land as they could to farmers and to create a new township near the old Reedy Creek mines but on the main road to Mannum. The main company director, Sir Samuel Davenport named the town after a close friend of William Light, Lieutenant Colonel George Palmer, one of the Commissioners of the SA Company and another director of the Australian Mining Company. Sir Samuel Davenport, a pioneer of olive growing in SA, established the existing olive plantation at Palmer in the 1880s. The land in the township of Palmer and surrounding farming districts was tenanted until 1905 when the Australian Mining Company sold the land to the tenants, or other buyers. George Melrose of Rosebank near Mt Pleasant wanted to buy the 20,000 acres and evict the tenants. Sir Samuel Davenport opposed this and conducted a public auction of 7,500 acres in the Palmer Institute in 1905 after tenants had already bought land privately( about 12,000 acres) from the Australian Mining Company. The Institute Trustees, who erected the Institute in 1896, purchased the land on which it stood but some land was offered as a gift to the town of Palmer including the olive plantation which is still a public reserve. The first leaseholders in Palmer were almost all German families the Bottroffs, Drabsches, Drogemullers, Lindners, Rathjens, Riedels, Seidels, Steickes and Thieles. The only English background settlers were the Royal and McDonald families. Soon Fendler, Zadow, Wagenknecht, Wachtel and others settled in Palmer with this influx of new families in 1905. These are the names today in the well sited Palmer cemetery which has been controlled by the local council since 1882 when the Company donated the land for it. The town developed quickly. The first Lutheran church services were held in a farmer’s house in 1869 but soon there were two Lutheran churches. In 1872 Christ Church Lutheran was built where it still stands and in 1873 St Pauls was erected. It was demolished around 1967 and the bell tower of St Pauls and some stone from the old church are in a memorial behind the current Palmer Lutheran Church, formerly Christ Church Lutheran. A Lutheran school opened at Christ Church in 1870 but closed in 1917, whilst in 1881 a state public school opened in the town. Some of the first people to take up leases were store keepers, a blacksmith, a general stock and station agent and an inn keeper. The old Miners Arm Hotel was first licensed in 1869 but closed in 1888. Meantime on the opposite side of the street the Palmer Hotel also opened in 1868 and it is still trading. An Institute was erected in 1896 and then finally demolished and just a plaque on the foundation stone laid by Sir Samuel Davenport remains on the site at the entrance to the town. The demolition was in the 1970s as the building was unsound. Importantly for a town near a mine site, a police station opened in 1872. The first police officer was stationed at the Reedy Creek mine a few kms away but in 1872 he argued that his presence was needed in the town where there were two hotels and many dwelling houses. Sir Samuel Davenport offered an allotment for the police station. The station was erected in 1873 but replaced with a new station in 1884. Just ten years later the police officer was recalled, the station closed and the building became a private residence. It still stand attached to the former Post Office which is now the General Store. In 1934 a second Police Station was built in Palmer. It is a fine stone and brick quoin building opposite the General Store. The old cell block behind it is still visible from the main street. It cost £975 to build yet closed 22 years later in 1956. The current General Store was built for August Wachtel in 1898. One of the early settlers of Palmer was William Loxton who later settled in a hut on the Murray River and gave his name to the town that developed there. Palmer is blessed with many olive trees. Sir Samuel Davenport trialled the commercial production of olives and olive oil in the 19th century. The 1880s olive grove of Palmer now surrounds the sports oval. The gates to the oval have the town’s Centenary Memorial celebrating the centenary of white settlement of South Australia. They were built in 1936 in Art Deco style. Opposite the entrance to the oval is the Palmer school. It began 1882 in the main street with 42 students and moved to a new stone school room on the present site in 1893. That stone building no longer remains but several 1940s or 1950s wooden school rooms remain there in Olive Grove Avenue. The stone school was still being used in the 1950s. Mr Kretschmer opened a blacksmiths in Palmer in 1890. In later years this blacksmith produced not only ploughs and horse and bullock shoes but also drays, wagons, buggies and sulkies and harvesters etc. The implement works moved to Port Adelaide in 1935. The first Christ Church Lutheran building was converted to a teacher’s residence and the current church in Palmer was built in 1872 with the tower added in 1928. St Pauls was used for services until 1967 when the two Palmer Lutheran congregations amalgamated. The railway line was extended from Monarto South to Sedan in 1919 with a siding called Apamurra 2 kms outside of Palmer. This handled passengers but also the grain of the district. A local farmer subdivided some land to create the private town of Apamurra in 1921 but nothing much ever happened there. In 1961 bulk grain handling was introduced to Apamurra with the introduction of silos. But before the railway arrived Palmer was an important staging place for horses and coaches on their way to Mannum on the River Murray. Fresh horses could be obtained in Palmer or your own horse stabled overnight. Not far from Palmer the Monarto to Sedan railway had to cross Reedy Creek as it wends its way to the River Murray. A superb five span railway bridge was constructed. It still exists just beyond the Palmer Lutheran cemetery. The other government infrastructure which boosted the town was the Palmer pumping station constructed for the Mannum to Adelaide pipe line in 1955. Water from the River Murray was pumped from 1955. Work on the project began in 1949. |
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