Hamilton. The Napier Club formerly for the wives of wealthy pastoralists. House built around 1900 . : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Hamilton. The Napier Club formerly for the wives of wealthy pastoralists. House built around 1900 . / denisbin
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| 説明 | Hamilton. Formerly known as the Grange Hamilton is as Scottish as it comes in heritage terms. It sits astride Burn Grange a creek that flows into the Wannon River. It is surrounded by a rich volcanic basalt plain. It claims to be the Wool Capital of the world, the source of its early wealth, but today the economy is very mixed with beef cattle being important. Thomas Mitchell in 1836 said of the Hamilton town site “A finer country could scarcely be imagined: enormous trees of the mimosa or wattle, of which the bark is so valuable, grew almost everywhere”. This was the Australia Felix that he so greatly praised. Mitchell named the creek Grange Burn. The Wedge family established a sheep run called the Grange near here in 1839. In November 1939 the government surveyor who later laid out Portland, recommended this spot for a town. Wedges moved on partly because of conflict with the local Aboriginal groups but other pastoralists replaced them. Sheep were killed, shepherds killed and of course whites retaliated with guns against the Aboriginal people. No official reports of murder were made. Governor La Trobe visited the Grange in 1841 and because of violence between blacks and whites he sent Acheson French as a police magistrate there with troopers for support. The violence had died out by 1842. A village emerged around 1848 and the town was gazetted in 1851. It was named after Hamilton near Glasgow as most settlers were Scottish. The Grange/Hamilton. White settlers moved into this area in 1839 settling on land on the Grange Burn (or river) which is a tributary of the Wannon which goes into the Glenelg River. The Wedge family who came in 1839 called their sheep run The Grange. The government surveyor Charles Tyers who had surveyed Portland recommended a spot on the Grange River for a town which the Commissioner of Lands for the Port Philip District of NSW approved a few months later in early 1840. By then the Wedges had left because of ongoing conflict and hostility with the local Aboriginal people. One of their shepherds had been killed and there was undoubtedly retaliation for that. Other settlers fared better in their relations with Aborigines because they treated them better and freely gave out meat and flour rations. One of the infamous massacres of Aboriginal people in Victoria occurred near Hamilton on 8th March 1840. This occurred just north of Coleraine on Konongwootong station (57,000 acres) run by the Whyte brothers. They also perpetrated the massacre with no official action taken. Around 40 Aboriginal men, women and children were surrounded and massacred after 127 sheep had been taken for meat. Various sources put the death toll at between 20 to 50 members of the Jardwadjali tribe but Aboriginal tradition estimates it at a higher figure. The Whyte brother stayed on and Konongwootong was divided between the brothers in 1849 and then for closer settlement in 1921. Violence between black and white subsided in 1841 after Governor La Trobe visited the Grange (Hamilton) and appointed a magistrate and ordered police troopers to be stationed at The Grange. A rudimentary Courthouse, barracks and police station followed on the corner of Martin and Thompson streets. Thus began the city of Hamilton out of violence. The town’s first policeman also established the Grange Inn in 1843 and a blacksmith set up a workshop in 1844 as a tiny town began to emerge. Shanties, a few houses and a store opened in 1848 to serve the surrounding sheep stations and the government order a full town survey in 1849. It was gazetted as Hamilton in 1851.The first police magistrate was Acheson French hence those street names in the town. He developed a mansion on his property which he called Monivae(1878).It is now a Catholic College. The first school in Hamilton opened in 1852 and a second hotel in 1853 followed by the first Catholic and Anglican Churches in 1857 and a Presbyterian Church in 1858. The 1854 census noted 230 people living in Hamilton and this grew to 1,197 in the 1861 census, 2,967 in 1881 and 4,024 in the 1901 census. By the 1860s the town had nine hotels, seven churches, two breweries, a tannery, a coach building works, flourmill and a Mechanics Institute. In the 1870s the town prospered more as the rail link to the port facilities at Portland was completed and the town was linked to Melbourne via Ararat and Ballart. The Botanical Gardens designed by William Guilfoyle. Land was set aside for a botanic gardens in 1853 but nothing happened until 1870 when the first gardener was appointed and some plantings occurred. In 1881 William Guilfoyle was commissioned to design the gardens. He employed his usual techniques of winding paths, a feature lake with white swans, fountain, aviary and animal enclosure, a rotunda, giant trees, rare plants and trees, garden beds and sweeping lawns. Some of these garden features were added later such as the fountain in 1917 and the rotunda in 1988. A list some of the rare plants is located beside the majestic entrance gates also a feature of Guilfoyle’s design. These unusual plants include California Live Oak, Himalayan Oak, Kentucky Coffee Tree, and some rare pines which he often used in his plans. Because he chose plants adaptable to drought and suited to the country they have thrived and grown into massive specimens. This is one of the most intact of Guilfoyle’s garden plans and was a commission he undertook whilst serving as Director of the Melbourne Botanic Gardens. |
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