Fine limestone walls and cement rendered quoins of Commerical Bank building in Port Wakefield South Australia. Now an antiques shop. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Fine limestone walls and cement rendered quoins of Commerical Bank building in Port Wakefield South Australia. Now an antiques shop. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Port Wakefield. Interest in the top of the gulf, which had been named and explored by Matthew Flinders in 1802, was not aroused until the discovery of copper at Burra in 1845. In 1848 the government sent a surveyor, G.S Walters to search and report on a transport route from the Burra mines to the head of the gulf. Walters reported that a suitable port could be made where the Wakefield River entered the sea, but a 600 foot channel needed to be dug to give shipping access to the land. The government proceeded with this plan and established Port Henry in 1850 as the first government town north of Adelaide. Almost immediately the name was changed to Port Wakefield. The early town developed around the wharf facilities in Burra Street as dozens of thirsty and rowdy bullock drivers entered the settlement every day to unload their drays of copper. One of the first government buildings in the town was a large police station, lockup and Court House! However, once the railway from Adelaide reached Gawler in 1857 the bullock drays reverted to their earlier routes taking their copper to Gawler. So as a copper port the heyday of the town was over by 1857. As railways were so expensive to build, but so necessary for agricultural settlement, the government built a horse drawn railway from Port Wakefield to Hoyleton in 1871 to open up the plains below the Clare Hills. This line was soon converted to take steam engines. Once copper had been discovered at Moonta and Wallaroo Mines in 1861 the government developed a plan to build a railway from the Yorke Peninsula copper towns, via Port Wakefield and Balaklava to Hamley Bridge where it would join the existing northern railway to Adelaide. By the 1870s the Copper Triangle had the largest population outside of Adelaide. This railway line opened in 1880 cementing a future role for the town of Port Wakefield as an international port and rail centre. In the 1880s Port Wakefield was the third busiest port in SA after Port Adelaide and Port Augusta. The town became a service centre for a large agricultural area and then in 1913 the local economy was boosted further with the establishment of the salt industry at Lochiel. The salt was carted to Port Wakefield and then shipped to other destinations. But of far greater importance to the town’s development was the establishment of the Army Proof Range just outside the town in 1928. It still operates today. The 1920s also saw the rise of the town as a fuel and motoring stopping point. Its history has always been intertwined with transport- bullock teams, sailing ships, railways, and now motor transport. Today the town relies on a nearby abattoir, commuting and the hay processing works near Balaklava for employment. |
| 撮影日 | 2006-06-06 18:40:25 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| カメラ | Vivicam4000 , Vivitar |
| 露出 | 0.01 sec (1/100) |
| 開放F値 | f/4.8 |