Lameroo. The Masonic Lodge building. Opened in 1967. Now for sale. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Lameroo. The Masonic Lodge building. Opened in 1967. Now for sale. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Lameroo. District population 860. Much of the land around present day Lameroo was taken up as pastoral leases in 1859 for Horatio Williams and John Bagot as part of Garra station. Gradually all the leases of Garra and other runs were taken over by Mrs Isabella Baker, wife of the late John Baker of Tungkillo and Narrung. She owned Garra by 1875 and passed the leases on to her son Alan Baker. The plains of Wow Wow were quite successful for raising sheep unlike the country to the east near Pinnaroo. When the leases of Garra expired in 1891 the government did not renew them. It was considering opening the country up for farming. All leases in the area had expired by 1893 when Goyder and a group of parliamentarians rode their horses out to examine the district. The government then declared the Hundred of Bews in 1893. Thomas Leckie was the first to take up farming land in the Hundred of Bews in 1897, followed by James Byrne in 1898 and William Harvey in 1901. Most settlers arrived after the railway reached Lameroo in September 1906. Farmers flocked to the district as Lameroo is just on the edge of Goyder’s Line with 383 mm of rain on average. Mallee was felled, burnt and cleared; stump jump ploughs purchased; and the first season provided a bumper crop of wheat. Within a few years Lameroo was a growing settlement with women and children in town, a school, a hotel, store and provisions for church services in people’s houses. It was the late 1920s before a series of lower than average rainfalls were recorded in Lameroo to dampen this growth. The town of Lameroo was surveyed in two parts one in 1904 and the other in 1907 by the government surveyor Mr Poyntz- hence Poyntz Street in Lameroo today. The focus of the town centre was the railway station and yard. This was the lifeblood of the settlement. The school reserve was sited to the east of Bews Terrace where it still stands. The Settlers Hotel began in 1905; the first Methodist Church was started in 1906 and used as the first school room; Eudunda Farmers took a lease out on a building for their town general store in 1907. All of these early buildings were timber and iron as there was no suitable building stone in the region. Lameroo looked like an impermanent settlement because of these tin structures but despite the hot summers, timber and iron buildings were quick, easy and cheap to erect. The large O’Connor General Store opened in 1907 on the site it still occupies. It also served as the first unofficial Post Office. The Lameroo Institute Hall opened in 1909 thus allowing dances in Lameroo. Prior to this the Methodist Hall was used for social functions but dances were not allowed! A butcher’s shop, a resident doctor, a carpenter and wheelwright all opened up premises in Lameroo by 1909. A town had been born and was booming with business by 1909 after just over two years of activity. Eudunda Farmers need special mention. It not only purchased Mallee roots or logs from farmers but it sold them superphosphate and other farm supplies. Its general store in town sold groceries but it also had a bakery by 1911, and a dressmaker from 1909 for the town ladies. These services operated in the former O’Connor Store which Eudunda Farmers had purchased in 1909. They operated from here until their new building was completed in the Main Street in 1937. Some significant historic structures in Lameroo today as you enter from Adelaide. 1.On the right St. John’s Lutheran Church 1966. The original Lutheran Church of 1908 was on this site behind the current church.2.On the right the original Lameroo hospital was a tin house opened in 1912 as the Pinnaroo District Hospital. A new wing opened in 1966 followed by another wing in 1978. It has had additions since then. 3.On the right was O’Connor’s built in 1911. It was also the first Post office. Now the crafts and heritage shop and Museum. The Council purchased it for this purpose in 1997. Turn right here. 4.Next to it the old galvanised iron structure was the town bakery built in 1907. 5.On the right the old Police Station and first Court House was constructed in stone in 1909 on this corner block. It was demolished when the new police station was built here in 1981. 6.Next on right is the Eudunda Farmers store manager’s residence. It was one of the few early stone structures at 26 Railway Tce. A fine house shows the importance of Eudunda Farmers in the town. Continue to Duffield Terrace and turn right and then right again into Vardon Terrace.7.On the corner of Poyntz St. and Vardon Terrace is the first doctor’s residence built in 1907. Further along are a couple of remaining galvanised houses. The second Lutheran church congregation (demolished) of Lameroo had their church in Vardon Tce. Go back to the Main Street (Railway Terrace). 8.On the right in the playground is the old Country Women’s Association building. CWA. Founded in 1939. The building is older and was a billiard hall and then a school. Moved here for the CWA in 1946. It was galvanised iron until reclad with weatherboard in 1981. 9.Almost opposite on the left is the IGA Supermarket. Built in Art Deco style in 1937 as Eudunda Farmers Store number seven. Still in use. 10.Next left corner is the site of the first Official Post Office opened in 1911 corner of North Avenue and Railway Terrace. It was demolished in 1962. Replaced by modern Post Office in 1963.11.The original Settlers Hotel was built in 1905. Six extra bedrooms were added in 1909. In 1925 it was demolished and the new Commercial Hotel erected. In 1949 the hotel became a community owned hotel. A third hotel was erected in 1975 demolishing all of the 1925 buildings.12. At the end of the side street by the hotel is the second Masonic Lodge in Lameroo. It was built in 1967. The Lodge was founded in 1914. This original building is in Vardon Tce next to the 1967 Lodge. Back to Main St.13.Next left is the Bank of Adelaide erected in 1967. The first banks opened in Lameroo in 1914. All have been demolished. Turn right across the railway line. 14.The first Lameroo School opened in mid-1906 in the first Methodist Church. The purpose built government school opened in 1910 on the current site. By 1914 120 children occupied this one room. A second room opened in 1915. High school subjects were soon offered and Lameroo became a Higher Primary School from 1921. It became an area school in 1945; and from 1990 became the only high school in the region. A new school building opened in 1974 when the old buildings were all demolished. 15.On the right is the Catholic Church – opened in 1911- strong Germanic influence and unusual construction. Timber frame; stucco wall panels; steeply pitched roof; overhanging eaves. Originally it had a fine bell tower on the roof now removed. It is heritage listed because it is quite unique in style for a timber framed building.16.The Methodist, now Uniting Church- 1956. The first Methodist church was behind the current church but is now demolished. It was replaced by a new church hall behind the church in 1985. 17.On the corner of South Avenue and Railway Terrace. The old SA Farmers’ Co-operative Union Offices. The building opened as a shop in 1917. In the 1940s the SA Farmers Union moved out of this building in 1964 to new modern premises elsewhere. Now very dilapidated. 18.The Lameroo Institute Hall opened in 1909 as a large tin room. A new Institute was erected in front of it in 1926. The present concrete hall which necessitated the demolition of the first two halls was completed in 1961. 19.Turn left here and then briefly stop at 1 Needs Road. This symmetrical unusual galvanised iron house with double bay windows was built for the manager of the Bank of Adelaide in 1911. It is heritage listed. Drive around the block to the Main Street. 20.Side walk if you want: On the southern side of Railway Terrace to the west at no 47 is St. John the Baptist Anglican Church. The first church first opened in 1910 as a Mission Hall. It was dedicated as a church in 1928 or 1930. It was an all tin construction with gothic style windows. In 1962 a new stone Anglican Church was consecrated. |
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