Charleston School. Near the old railway line that opened to Mount Pleasant in 1918. Now a private residence. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Charleston School. Near the old railway line that opened to Mount Pleasant in 1918. Now a private residence. / 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 | Reformists SA Premier Archibald Peake was educated by his father in the school at Charleston. Peake was Premier in 1909-1910, 1912-1915 and again from 1917 until his death in 1920. The new Charleston school of 1921 was opened by former Premier Peake’s wife. It is now a private residence. The branch railway line from the Melbourne line to Mount Pleasant which passed through Charleston opened in 1918 especially to take race goers to the Easter Oakbank races. The line closed in 1963. Up until that time the service was also used by students from Charleston, Mt Torrens, etc attending Oakbank Area School.Charleston- home to the Newman and Dunn families - not the 1920s dance.About a dozen Special Surveys were conducted in the Adelaide Hills in 1839 for wealthy men or syndicates of buyers who put up £4,000 to start the survey. After the Survey the funders took 4,000 acres (i.e. they paid £1 per acre) and the government had additional surveyed land to sell at £1 per acre to poorer buyers. The SA Company, which had financed the setting up of this colony in 1836, paid for the Sources of the Torrens River Special Survey in 1839. Most of the survey covered the Onkaparinga and the areas we traverse today on this tour rather than the Torrens itself. The SA Company intended to buy up the land for £1 per acre, get tenant farmers to develop the land, and then sell it on later at a great profit. In 1839 Charles Newman had arrived in the colony from England as an employee of the SA Company because he was knowledgeable about stock control. He was a shepherd for the Company and the first white settler of the Charleston area. He saved his wages and waited to buy land in the district in 1843. A few years later William Dunn arrived in the colony in 1843 and bought some land at what is now Charleston. He soon acquired more land. His family had resources and one of his brothers had already established a flour mill at Mt Barker and became known as the miller of the colony. Another brother had purchased land at Mt Torrens and went on to establish the township there. Soon one of William Dunn’s daughters at Charleston married Charles Newman the former SA Company shepherd. Charles Newman and William Dunn lived in what was called Newman Street at Charleston. As the first settler the locality was called Mt Charles and the township was eventually called Charleston. Newman and William Dunn were neighbours but they built entirely different styles of houses. Charles Newman built Blackford House, named after his home village in Somerset England, in the Georgian style in 1855. It had good symmetry and is made of local Carey Gully sandstone, with a two storey box like shape with some side additions. It is graced with a finely built dressed stone wall to enclose a formal garden. It is typically English. Nearby Newman built a fine stone barn in typical English style which is today the Blackford winery. Eventually the house was left vacant and it became quite derelict by the late 1970s. The winery owners now have it looking like it would have in the 1860s. It is on the state heritage register which should offer some protection into the future. Charles Newman went on to become a local Councillor and he was a founding trustee of the Charleston Methodist Church which was built in 1850. He was fluent in German and so liked by the German settlers of the surrounding districts and he was an amateur poet. He died in 1900. Next door, William Dunn built Gumbank in a totally different style. It was more vernacular in style, made of wattle and daub and then whitewashed with large wooden uprights and beams. Gumbank was started in 1843 ending up being a large two storey residence fit for a wealthy landowner. It would have originally had a thatched roof but that was soon replaced. Gumbank which is also on the state heritage register soon had a blacksmith shop, large barn and other outbuildings. The property was known for its wool and wattle bark production used in the tanning process. Next door to that another Dunn brother Charles Dunn obtained land at Mt Charles in 1845 and built Mount Charles House another fine two storey residence. Charles had previously been a blacksmith. Both the Dunns and the Newmans were buried in the Charleston cemetery. The earliest burial is that of a Dunn baby girl in 1857. The focus of the social life of the Newman and Dunn families was the Primitive Methodist Chapel which opened in 1852 before the township was laid out in 1857. Both families worshipped there. One of the Dunn girls, Grace married a George Bell and also lived in Charleston. They also built a grand two storey home there which they called Bell View. |
| 撮影日 | 2015-07-27 12:10:50 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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