Riverton. The Methodist Bible Christian Church opened in 1874. It was sold to the Lutherans in 1964 when a new Methodist church was opened elsewhere in Rivertonn. next door to the pioneer Anglican cemetery which opened in 1855. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Riverton. The Methodist Bible Christian Church opened in 1874. It was sold to the Lutherans in 1964 when a new Methodist church was opened elsewhere in Rivertonn. next door to the pioneer Anglican cemetery which opened in 1855. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Located on the banks of the Gilbert River, this town was surveyed in 1853 although the first settlers had arrived in the area in the 1840s. Edward John Eyre named the Gilbert River and valley after the first Colonial Storekeeper, Thomas Gilbert. The first settlers of this area were John Masters and Matthew Moorhouse who leased the land before it was surveyed. They named the town Riverton as it straddles the Gilbert River. The first building in the town was an unlicensed pub that opened in 1853. The following year, 1854 the town proper was established with a post office, telegraph office, and store. Soon saddlers, wheelwrights and blacksmiths set up in the town to meet the needs of any bullock or mule drays carrying copper from Burra to Kapunda. One of the early businesses was the wheelwright shop of Ernst August Scholz. He established his business in 1865, built a house in 1872 and added a blacksmith shop in 1886. His shops are now the Riverton Museum. Scholz came from Silesia and his sons carried on the business after his death in 1919. The business finally closed in 1966 and it was converted to the museum in 1981. It is well worth an inspection.The town boomed once the railway from Adelaide arrived in 1869. The most outstanding building in Riverton is the Railway Station, now a private residence. In 1918 a spur line was built from Riverton to Clare and eventually to Spalding in 1924. The first wooden station buildings burnt down a few years after their opening and the present stone structure was commenced in 1875, and extended on many occasions over the next forty years. Because Riverton was a railway refreshment stop and all trains stopped for meals and snacks, the station complex grew and grew. The platform became one of the longest in the state. On the 22 March 1921 it became the scene of a political murder or assassination, the only successful assassination in Australia! A politician travelling from Broken Hill stopped at the refreshments bar along with other passengers when a crazed former Russian called Koorman Tomayeff opened fire. Percy Brookfield MP was killed, and several other passengers were wounded, and two others killed. 40 shots were fired. Mr Brookfield fired twice but missed. Tomayeff was tried and certified insane and died in 1948 in a mental hospital in Adelaide. The last passenger train passed through in 1988. An indication of the size and affluence of Riverton comes from the history of schools in the town. Early private schools began in 1856 with several boarding schools being established including one at nearby Navan. All that remains at Navan now are the ruins of the former Catholic Church, and the Navan cemetery. A public school was built on the current school site in 1866. After the passing of the Free, Compulsory and Secular Education Act of 1875 this school was extended. It is still the public primary school. Riverton was one of the first country towns to have a high school. Continuation classes for secondary students were conducted at the primary school from early in the 20th century and the public high school was first opened in 1913. It started with 23 boys and 9 girls. By 1920 the high school had over 50 pupils and a new purpose built high school was opened in 1921. It is still used. |
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| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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