Balhannah. In the Bonney Flat Methodist cemetery is this modern Jewish headstone and grave. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Balhannah. In the Bonney Flat Methodist cemetery is this modern Jewish headstone and grave. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Bonney Flat.The earliest land owner here seems to have been John Camac who arrived in SA in 1839 and purchased land in 1840. He brought with him from England a small grinding stone to mill grain into flour which he did at Bonney Flat. He also milled his neighbour’s wheat as well as his own. By 1844 Camac is listed as having nine acres of barley, one acre of potatoes, one acre of vegetable garden, 30 cattle, five pigs and one horse. Primitive Methodist settlers had met in houses and under trees at Bonney Flat from the late 1840s. Then in 1859 John Camac sold a portion of his land for £8 to the Primitive Methodists for a church and a donation by local MP Charles Bonney made the erection of a church possible. John Camac supervised the construction of the church. The opening service was conducted by two Primitive Methodist ministers and people attended from surrounding districts including Nairne, Woodside and Oakbank. As was so often the case, the Methodists also intended to use their church as a public school and this ensued. One of John Camac’s sons Thomas was Superintendent of the Methodist Sunday School here for 53 years. He is also reputed to have been the first white male born in the district. He was also credited with being the driving force behind the erection and opening of the Balhannah School in 1857. The Bonney Flat church closed in 1931 the year the new, bigger Methodist church opened in Balhannah. It was not sold as the attached cemetery was still in use. But on Black Sunday 2nd January 1955 the old church at Bonney Flat was razed by the devastating fires. The Adelaide Hills fires ranged from One Tree Hill to Strathalbyn. Another notable building destroyed on that day was Marble Hill, the once summer residence of the Governor of South Australia along with 40 hills residences. Adelaide recorded 43 degrees that day with very strong winds and blinding dust. Back in the 19th century in 1869 some bismuth was discovered near Bonney Flat and a small mine operated to extract copper and bismuth which was used for insecticides and in compounds with lead or copper. The deposits were discovered by a local farmer James Powell. The Balhannah Copper and Bismuth Mine Company only lasted a year or so but gave good returns of about £37,000 over that period. The cemetery here shows that the main early local settlers were: Camac; Thomas; Wicks; Grasby; Clasohm; Peacock; etc. Joseph Grasby was the first to export apples to England from Balhannah. The district was named after Charles Bonney who was the first to overland cattle (300), with Joseph Hawdon, from NSW along the Murray River into the new colony of SA in 1838. Charles Bonney purchased land from the Special Survey of Mt Barker from his friend William Hampden Dutton. He called his property Bonney station and the name remained for the district as in 1840 Bonney was the hero and livestock champion of the colony! Bonney was made the Commissioner of Lands for SA from 1842 to 1857. He became a member of the SA Parliament in 1857-58 for East Torrens and he was a Legislative Councillor from 1865-66. He was involved in copper mining; he managed SA railways for some years and was a Lands Commissioner for the Strangways Act of 1868. He mainly resided at Parkside in the city and he became the first Mayor of Norwood in 1853. He retired to Sydney and died there in 1897. |
| 撮影日 | 2023-09-24 14:22:56 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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