Moculta in the Barossa Valley. Old Australian thatched barn from the 1850s still in use. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Moculta in the Barossa Valley. Old Australian thatched barn from the 1850s still in use. / denisbin
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-改変禁止 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Moculta. The town is very much a Barossa township, dominated by the Silesian traditions of the first German inhabitants. Prior to their arrival the Peramangk Aboriginal people roamed the area. The duck ponds near Moculta were an aboriginal campsite. Not far away Aboriginal paintings can be found in caves along the Somme and Marne Rivers. Moculta is a local aboriginal word meaning “hill near a settlement.” The town is in the Hundred of Jellico, and land here was part of one of the seven Special Surveys that Charles Flaxman ordered for his boss, George Fife Angas. Before the town was established in 1865 the local leaseholders were Joseph Keynes, William and Abraham Shannon and Pulteney Murray. It was Abraham Shannon who established the town of Moculta on some of his land. He and William arrived from Ireland in 1843. The grand 11 roomed mansion of the Shannons was demolished many years ago, but the family mausoleum, still on private property is pictured below. It was erected in 1875. The Shannon property was called Duck Ponds after the creek on which it sat and in 1910 the property was sold. The other big land owners of the district were the Murrays of Glen Turrett. Pulteney Murray also had holdings at Gumeracha and Truro. As wealthy sheep owners they created a grand house of 11 rooms in 1869 when they added to their 1840s l homestead. When the Murrays left the property after WWI it was 10,000 acres in size. The streets of Moculta were named after Abraham’s children. Within a few years the town had 2 blacksmiths, a wheelwright, a saddler, bookmaker, cabinet maker and a store keeper. The Linke Implement factory which operated from 1873 until 1933 made agricultural implements and employed up to 45 people. Like other Barossa towns the Lutherans of Moculta were divided into two congregations with different interpretations of the Bible. Gruenberg Church just out of the town was built in 1864 and the people there were followers of Pastor Kavel from Hahndorf. Nearby Gnadenberg Church on Parrot Hill was built in 1860 and its congregation were followers of Pastor Fritzsche from Bethany. Both churches established Lutheran schools for their children. Gruenberg School started in 1857 but when numbers declined in 1887 it closed and their children went to the Moculta Lutheran School which had been started in 1877 by the congregation of Gnadenberg Church. This school was closed by act of parliament in 1917. It re-opened ten days later as a state school. |
| 撮影日 | 2004-11-11 03:02:59 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| カメラ | Vivicam4000 , Vivitar |
| 露出 | 0.004 sec (1/250) |
| 開放F値 | f/9.5 |