Murray Town. The former Bible Christian Methodist Church. Built in 1896. Now a private house.. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Murray Town. The former Bible Christian Methodist Church. Built in 1896. Now a private house.. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Murray Town. It was explorer Edward John Eyre who placed the first white footsteps on the Murray Town region just to the east of the Flinders Ranges in 1839 and in 1840. In 1844 the White brothers took out the Charlton run near here. In 1851 they took out 14 year leases on 269 square miles just to the south of the Murray Town district. In 1854 John Yeates took out a lease of 94 square miles covering the Murray Town region. His headquarters was 2 kms north of Murray Town which he called Wild Dog Creek. The Special Survey of 20,000 acres for copper mining at Charlton was issued in 1845 and freehold land was later sold to the early pastoralists by the government. The Hundred of Wongyarra was declared in 1851 long before any farmer’s were interested in the region. By 1866 the Wirrabara run was taken over by Alexander Borthwick Murray and his three sons of Mt Crawford as a sheep stud for their Murray Merinos. Murray had his brother-in-law George Tinline in the partnership too. Their run included freehold land from the Mining Special Survey of 1845 and the future site of Murray Town. When parts of the run were resumed in 1872 for closer settlement Alexander Borthwick Murray used his employees to purchase more areas of freehold land in a system known as dummying. In 1885 A.B. Murray had some of his freehold lands surveyed and put up for sale as a private town named Murraytown after himself. Wirrabara run in the late 19th century occupied 20,700 acres of freehold land. The town was later named Murray Town. Almost overnight in 1886 the small town had a hotel, blacksmith, Post Office, bank and school (1893). The Bible Christian Methodists built their stone church in 1896 which is now a residence. The Anglicans built a small church outside of the town in 1914 which closed in 1961. By 1890 Murray Town was booming. This was partly because around 30 Working Men Blocks of 10 to 20 acres and Homestead Leases were created by the government along the Traveling Stock Route just north of the town site and to the west of the town. This gave a boost to the little town. It had a further boost from 1915 when 44 soldier settler blocks were created by the government for soldiers returning from World War One. The Murray Town Institute opened in 1920 as a War Memorial Institute thanks to the boost of funds from the sale of the Wirrabara estate in 1910. The Institute was given a new façade and two front rooms in 1966. The Murray Town School had red brick additions in 1940 and was struggling with low enrolments in the late 1980s before its closure. Alexander Borthwick Murray had one of the town streets named Tinline his brother-in-law the famous SA Banker and pastoralist George Tinline. Other streets were named after his wife Margaret and some of his 13 children – Charlotte, Stanley, Adam and John but half these streets no longer exist. Today Murray Town is a sleepy little place with little commercial or social activity but in the 1880s it was busy with bullock teams carting wagons or drays of wheat down through Bangor to Port Germein. This trade dwindled once the railway reached nearby Booleroo Centre in 1910. Alexander B Murray and his brother-in-law George Tinline also held leaseholds which covered the areas to Booleroo Centre, Booleroo Whim and towards Willowie. The leaseholds were complicated and often changed but Tinline and Murray held the Booleroo run covering 130 square miles. Old Booleroo run which covered Willowie was held in the 1850s by John Howard Angas as was Willowie head station which was located near Melrose. The Working Men Blocks and Homestead Leases were generally planted in vines and fruit trees. By the 1930s the blockers had gone and the trees had died. After Alexander Borthwick Murray’s death in 1903 the freehold Wirrabara estate was put up for sale in 1910. The 20,700 acre estate was subdivided into 47 farms and bought £141,000 for the Murray family. The auction took place in the Gladstone Institute and there was an admission fee of 2/6 pence. This fee income was divided between the Wirrabara and Murray Town Institutes. Forecasts change but when the Murray Town centenary committee wrote a history of the town in 1985 they projected the population of Murray Town to grow to 2,000 people by 2026 if more forest plantations and a wood pulp industry were to be established. Sadly the 2021 census showed 58 residents in Murray Town. |
| 撮影日 | 2024-05-25 15:20:40 |
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