Booleroo Centre school. The room on the left is the original schoolroom built in 1879. More rooms were added later in the mid 1880s. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Booleroo Centre school. The room on the left is the original schoolroom built in 1879. More rooms were added later in the mid 1880s. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Booleroo Centre.Early pastoral leases held around what is now Booleroo Centre began with those of Alexander Borthwick Murray and George Tinline in 1853. Their runs were resumed by the government for the surveying and declaration of the Hundred of Booleroo in 1875. To the south of this area hundreds had been declared in 1871 for Appila and Tarcowie etc. Selection acts by the mid 1870s had made it easier for farmers to take up land, improve it as required and pay for it over a few years. As the years passed the acreage allowed under a selection block also increased to make farms more viable. Up to 1,000 acres could be selected by 1877. Remember when the first sections in SA were surveyed the block size was 80 acres, then 320 acres etc. Farmers moved into the areas around Fullerville and White Cliffs (later Arwakurra) around 1875. The government town surveyed for the Hundred was called Booleroo Town or Booleroo Whim. It never developed into a proper town but Booleroo Centre, near the centre of the hundred progressed quickly. Surveyor General George Goyder signed off on the town plan for Booleroo Centre in 1878 but it did not follow the usual SA town plan. The town is basically triangular in shape with a parkland belt on two sides only and suburban lands beyond that. All the farming areas here are within Goyder’s Line and the farmers soon prospered. The first public building in town was a temporary Bible Christian Methodist Church opened in 1880 as the town started to emerge but this was replaced with the current church in 1888. The hotel opened as a single storey hotel in 1883(upper floor added 1919) and the first Post Office, always a major government service, opened in 1881. Stores, workshops and the first bank (Bank of Adelaide) were all in business by 1886. St. Marys Anglican Church opened in 1888 at almost the same time as the Bible Christian Methodist church. (The first church in the district was the Wesleyan Methodist at Fullerville which opened in 1879.) The first schoolroom opened in 1879 but more rooms were needed by the mid 1880s. An institute was established in 1891 with additions in 1910 and two front rooms added as a Soldiers Memorial in 1927. So Booleroo Centre became established as the droughts of the early 1880s set in and the push for new agricultural hundreds to the north faded away, along with the hopes of the farmers who went north beyond Goyder’s Line. Agricultural towns in the 1880s all wanted close access to a railway. Many early settlers had arrived in the Booleroo district in the mid 1870s after alighting from a sailing ship at Port Germein and trekking up through Germein Gorge and Bangor to the new lands. The nearest railhead was at Caltowie (the Pirie-Peterborough line passed through here in 1878) quite a distance for carting drays of bagged wheat from Booleroo. In 1881 public meetings were asking for a railway from Port Germein, through the Gorge and Booleroo on to Pekina and Orroroo which had just got a rail connection to Peterborough. The government acted in 1882 and passed a bill authorising a railway line extension from Gladstone to Appila. Only the residents of Appila were happy with that and so the bill lapsed. A book urging a railway from Port Germein to Orroroo was published in 1885. The government commission further reports on a new rail route across the Willochra Plains in 1892 but this new line would have been expensive as it had two ranges of hills (Narien and Pekina ranges to cross) as well as the climb up the Germein Gorge. Nothing happened. A final government report was commissioned in 1902 and then that idea was dropped as the government decided to extend the railway from Laura to Booleroo. This new line opened with much fanfare in Booleroo Centre in 1910. This line in turn was extended to Melrose and Wilmington by 1919. The last grain train passed through Booleroo Centre railway station in 1983 and the line was closed and the brick railway station demolished in 1990. The grain silos remain and grain is now carted by truck. Booleroo Centre had another growth spurt after the railway reached the town in 1910. St. Agnes Catholic Church was opened in 1912 with even non-Catholic locals donating to the building fund. It became the most architecturally significant building in the town. The Catholic Bishop of Port Augusta/Willochra, Bishop Norton designed the Romanesque style church himself. Next door a convent and presbytery were built about the same time. The nuns ran a Catholic School in Booleroo until World War Two. A new government red brick Police Station was opened in 1909 and the government hospital opened in 1911. The unusual stone Post Office appears to date from around 1930 which was the year the High School opened. More recently the Lutheran Church donated land for aged housing next to their church. Building commenced in 1981. More units have been added and the complex near the hospital is called Mount View homes. With aged care, a hospital, two schools and shopping and other services the population of Booleroo is reasonably static. It is also assisted by an innovative engineering works just outside the town Kelly Engineering employs 44 local people, including ten apprentices. It makes highly specific farming machinery and plough discs which are exported to Canada, Europe and America as well as being sold interstate. |
| 撮影日 | 2014-11-01 08:40:30 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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