Jamestown school. The first classroom was built in 1876. It was probably the room on the right of the photo. More rooms were added as the school grew but in the same style. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Jamestown school. The first classroom was built in 1876. It was probably the room on the right of the photo. More rooms were added as the school grew but in the same style. / denisbin
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| 説明 | This school complex closed in 1999 when a new school campus was opened elsewhere in the town. it is now the local History Centre. A High School opened in Jamestown in 1910. Jamestown .John Bristow Hughes took out the first pastoral lease in this area in 1841. The country is high, with good and reliable rainfall and ideal for pastoralism. He named his property Bundaleer. This was later held by Charles B Fisher. The other early pastoral run near the township was Old Canowie established by Daniel Cudmore. The hundred was surveyed in 1870-71 and the land opened up to small farmers. The town itself was surveyed in 1871 and named after the Governor of South Australia, Sir James Fergusson. The Scottish influence is still present in Jamestown with many Scottish street names. The Main Street is called Ayr Street and is especially wide for a country town. The District Council was formed a few years later in 1875 and the first Mayor appointed in 1878. Within a few years the town was well established and was one of the largest towns in the mid north in the 1882 census after Port Augusta and Port Pirie. In 1882 the town had almost 1,000 people. Today it is not much bigger with 1,400 people! Jamestown is situated on the banks of Belalie Creek. The first shop or business in Jamestown was a saddlery which opened in 1872. The butcher’s shop in Jamestown is meant to be the oldest butcher shops in South Australia. Dr Cockburn’s House built in 1876 still stands in the extension of the Main Street. Other old buildings in the Main Street area include the Lutheran Church, built in 1876 for the Presbyterians; St James Catholic Church, built in 1929, the Memorial Hall built as the Institute in 1876, the Belalie Homes for the Aged behind the Main Street and formerly the site of the Humphris Factory and home, and The Uniting Church nearby, built as a Wesleyan church in 1878. The town was linked quite early (1878) with Port Pirie by rail and later to Peterborough in January 1881. The station building was built in 1885 and is now a museum. A new railway station was built when the rail line was standardised to Broken Hill in 1969. Emu Butter Factory. The largest employer of labour in Jamestown's history has been Humphris' Emu Butter Factory, which employed over forty people around 1900. The founder of the firm was Edmund Humphris. In November 1872 he purchased allotments in Jamestown. He built one of the first houses on Ayr Street. Humphris became the town's first butcher and took an active part in the early community life of the town, being a foundation Councillor in the Corporation, a position he held at the time of his death in 1882. Meanwhile Humphris had purchased the first aerated waters factory in Jamestown in 1878. He brought a brewer from Macclesfield who extended Humphris' range of drinks into alcoholic Emu Beers. The brewer died in 1881, and the brewing of beer ceased, however Humphris’ wife carried on the aerated waters factory in order to support her family of ten children after his death. She extended the business into the manufacture of tomato sauce in 1887. In 1895 the firm expanded into the manufacture of butter. The Humphris firm reached its zenith in the early l900s. In 1908 it was reported that: 'The importance of Jamestown as a commercial centre is to great extent due to the large and flourishing firm, who have undeniably the largest factories in South Australia, outside Adelaide. The first department visited was the Butter Factory, where some 8 000 pounds of 'Emu', butter is turned out daily, and the total this year amounted to nearly a million pounds. Cream is received from all parts of the Northern district, as far as Hawker, Hookina, Snowtown and Brinkworth (by means of Railway Cool Vans)'. The firm had 750 suppliers of cream in 1908 and by 1912 it had increased to over 1000.The factory is underground—the more important work, such as churning, working up is done in the base of the factory, and even in the hottest weather the temperature is low. There is already sale for 'Emu’ butter in Broken Hill, the South Australian markets, and a big quantity is shipped to Great Britain. Connected with the butter factory is a six ton refrigerator, and large quantities of ice are manufactured in the summer time. Messrs Humphris and Sons also buy large quantities of eggs and….in the Aerated Water factory, a large number of hands were busily employed turning out thousands of bottles of soda-water, lemonade, ginger ale, etc. The Pickle and Sauce factory where Humphris & Sons' noted tomato sauce is manufactured, was a veritable hive of activity, and cases upon cases of pickles, sauces and chutney were being rapidly cased for despatch to near and distant towns.” In 1899 the firm opened a factory in Adelaide in Carrington Street, and most of the manufacturing of the sauces and pickles was transferred to this factory from Jamestown, due to the greater availability of raw materials. In 1909, thirty people were employed in this Adelaide factory. The depression of the 1930s took its toll and in 1932 the Emu Factory closed its doors at Jamestown. Aerated waters were still manufactured in the factory until 1965, when this function ceased, and until the early sixties the factory was used as a cream depot. In the mid sixties, Southern Farmers took over and the factory became a derelict ruin. It was demolished in 1975 to make way for the Homes for the Aged.Jamestown’s Famous Residents. Dr. John Alexander Cockburn was Premier of South Australia from June 27, 1889 until August 18, 1890. He was born in Scotland in 1850, emigrated to South Australia in 1879 and set up practice at Jamestown. In 1878, he was selected as the first mayor of Jamestown. He stood for Burra in the South Australian House of Assembly in 1884, serving as Minister of Education from 1885 - 1887 before losing that seat. He was minister for education again and minister for agriculture in the Kingston ministry from 1893 until April 1898.He was active in the planning of Federation, including representing South Australia at the Melbourne conference in 1890 and the Sydney conference in 1891. After resigning from parliament, he went to England. He had a long career in Freemasonry, beginning with his initiation in 1876. He helped establish the Grand Lodge of South Australia, and served in several high offices within it. He was created a Knight in 1900. He died in London in 1929. The township of Cockburn near Broken Hill was named after him. He was also instrumental in having a tree planting program for Jamestown in 1879 long before it was a popular concept.R.M.Williams was born here and grew up in the town before he established his bush clothing business. M.S.Mcleod, a member of a local farming family started his bicycle shop in Jamestown in 1916. He later developed this into a state-wide tyre and hardware business, which eventually became a national organisation and still operates today as a trading company. Thomas Mitchell and South Australian Farmers Union, was created in Jamestown at a public meeting on 28 February 1888. Thomas Mitchell (1844-1908) was the force behind the union. He was a Scot who had moved to Jamestown to grow wheat in 1879. The Union was designed to keep costs low for farmers and was based on a New Zealand model. The movement spread quickly and the headquarters were moved to Adelaide in 1895 and the name was changed to the SA Farmers Cooperative Union. Farmers got dividends from being paid up members and the organisation spread across Yorke and Eyre Peninsulas and the South East. The Union established a merchandise store in Port Adelaide and supplied superphosphate, wheat sacks and machinery to farmers. By the 1920 the cooperative had branched into the dairy industry and eventually became known as Farmers Union. It marketed butter locally and overseas but as late as 1960 it still had 19,000 members who were cereal or dairy farmers or pastoralists. In 1962 it became Southern Farmers Cooperative, a large corporate enterprise. It ceased to exist when taken over by National foods in 1970, but the brand name Farmers Union persisted with some products such as iced coffee etc. |
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