Old shop in main street Williamstown South Australia. Beautiful stone wall next to it. Probably from around 1860 as town laid out in 1858. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Old shop in main street Williamstown South Australia. Beautiful stone wall next to it. Probably from around 1860 as town laid out in 1858. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Kersbrook and the South Australia Company.White settlement started at Kersbrook in 1840. The area was surveyed as part of a Special Survey in 1839 and the major land buyer for the Kersbrook district across to Forreston and down to Gumeracha and Blumberg (later Birdwood) was the SA Company. The SA Company sent John Bowden up to Kersbrook as manager of an SA Company dairy. He named the district after his home town in Cornwall. John Bowden left the employ of the SA Company around 1843 and bought freehold land at Kersbrook. He remained in the district until he died in 1877 despite leasing huge pastoral runs on Yorke Peninsula. The original barn that he built on the outskirts of the town in 1843 still stands beside the road to Chain of Ponds- Scott Street.The settler to get the town under way was William Carmen who moved to Kersbrook from Williamstown in 1851 to set up a blacksmith shop. He subdivided his land and created a private town with the first settlers taking up land options in 1858. He called his town Maidstone after its namesake in Kent. He sold his first town blocks to a family called Scott. But the name Kersbrook persisted and the Geographical Names Board officially adopted Kersbrook in 1917. In the early years the district was known for its wheat, fruit and pastures for dairy cattle. William Carmen built the Wheat Sheaf Hotel in Kersbrook as well as a blacksmiths. The old hotel is now a private house; the old Church of Christ which was built in the 1863 still stands; and the oldest cottage in the village, erected by the first land purchasers the Scott family, is Primrose Cottage located in High Street. It was built in 1858. Bowden’s 1843 barn in Kersbrook.1860 Anglican church in Williamstown- St Peter.Kersbrook highlights the role of the SA Company in the development of SA. It started in 1834 by act of the British parliament. It purchased the three ships the Duke of York, the John Pirie and the Rapid to bring the first settlers to SA. The Company employed 350 men to build roads, port facilities at Port Adelaide, a flour mill at Hackney, bridges across hill streams, stone mason to erect buildings, and managers of dairy herds, sheep flocks and general farm managers. Most of its early employees had 3 or 5 year contracts to 1842. It became an owner of mines in SA, wharfs, general stores, and much land. By 1841 it owned 20,000 sheep, the largest flock in the colony. It built grand houses on its land for its resident managers. At one time the Company owned a sixth of all surveyed land totalling 65,000 acres and it had hundreds of tenant farmers on these lands. It readily sold land on to its tenants when they had enough cash for purchase and they gave each employee/tenant some land, a cow and a pig. In 1850 one quarter of all wheat reaped in SA was grown on SA Company lands. The Company donated the land for the first school in Forreston near Kersbrook as they did elsewhere. The Company owned much land in the Kersbrook district until 1910 when it sold much of it. The last Company land was sold here in 1929. Gradually the Company also sold off the land it owned in the Adelaide city square mile. The SA Company was wound up in 1949 and the last assets transferred to the Elders Trustee Company. The headquarters for the Company had been in Bank Street until their new offices were built in 1913 on the corner of North Terrace and Gawler Place. This headquarters was called Gawler Chambers. Williamstown.This town was originally known as Victoria Creek as that was the stream that passes through the area. A bush hotel was built here, called the Victoria Hotel, in the 1850s. In 1857, so the story goes, the publican traded his hotel for a team of horses from Mr Lewis Johnstone. Johnstone then laid out a town in 1858 which he called Williamstown after his son William and the streets were named after his other children and wife- Margaret, Eva, Eliza and George. But the area of Victoria Creek/Williamstown was first surveyed as part of the Barossa Special Survey August 1839. It adjoined the Lyndoch Valley, Gawler and Flaxman’s seven Special Surveys for George Fife Angas. When the Barossa Survey was finished John Warren bought up 20,000 acres of land in the district, and his brother George also bought land. The town of Victoria Creek started to emerge in the early 1850s with a butcher, bakery and blacksmith and the hotel which opened in 1854. The first private school opened in 1858. The Wesleyan Methodists built the first Chapel in the burgeoning town in 1856 but the chapel was demolished long ago. Adjacent is the current Uniting Church (formerly Methodist) which was erected in 1860. The nearby Anglican Church of St Peter was also built in 1860. From its early days Williamstown was a saw milling town because of the giant gums in the district. The town had a minor boom during the Barossa gold rushes of 1868-69 and again when there was some reef mining at the Barossa goldfields in the mid 1890s when 70 men were employed in the mines. In 1897 the residents of the town got together to mark the jubilee of Queen Victoria’s reign. They raised funds and purchased 11 acres of land from the South Australian Company which was still a major land owner in the district. The land was named Victoria Park and still contains the town oval, club facilities and the like. Perhaps the most notable former resident of Williamstown was Myrtle Rose White (1888-1961), the author of the 1932 book called No Roads Go By. Myrtle Rose White attended primary school in Williamstown. No Roads Go By was about her life growing up near Lake Frome. She published two more books in her later years and they were all in the vein of Jeannie Gunn’s We of the Never Never fame. The main street of Williamstown has some interesting old buildings including the Forrester’s Lodge building dating from 1910( it was a saw milling town), the Institute Hall built in 1916 with the rare Boer War Memorial in front of it and the Victoria Hotel dating from the 1854. The hotel veranda also has a large log seat made from one of the giant blue gum logs sawn down in the district. Today tourism is a major source of income for the town traders. |
| 撮影日 | 2011-01-17 12:20:39 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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