Grange. Adelaide. Captain Charles Sturts residence which he called The Grange. It includes many of his personal effects and furniture. It was built in 1840 and is probably the second oldest house in South Australia. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Grange. Adelaide. Captain Charles Sturts residence which he called The Grange. It includes many of his personal effects and furniture. It was built in 1840 and is probably the second oldest house in South Australia. / 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 | Captain Charles Sturt, who was the first white leader to row down to Murray to its mouth and back upstream again in 1830, later became an early settler in Adelaide. After he resigned his commission with the British Military Service he was granted 5,000 acres in NSW in 1835 near what was to become Canberra much later. He purchased a further, 1950 acres in NSW at Mittagong. Two years later he purchased a further 1,000 acres near Sydney where he intended to make a new home. He then overlanded cattle from NSW to South Australia in 1838 to revive his fortunes. This did not work but he was feted in Adelaide as a hero and so he sold all his lands in NSW to accept a government appointment as Commissioner of Lands in the new colony of South Australia in 1839. He was soon after demoted by the Governor to Assistant Registrar. In 1844 Sturt led an expedition to the Barrier Range area of NSW and he went further trying to cross what was named Sturts Stony Desert. When he returned in 1846 he was made Colonial Treasurer which was a much higher paying position. He returned to England in 1847 to receive the gold medal of the Royal Geographical Society in London for his inland explorations. Sturt maintained his great interest in Australian until his death. He built a cottage for his family in 1840. It is one of the oldest buildings in South Australia probably only predated by parts of Government House which were built in 1838. The cottage was built on his 390 acre farm on the upper reaches of the Port River at Grange Beach. The house was built in brick with the high walled part built first and the low roofed cottage part built in 1841. The cottage part was used as a kitchen, nursery and wash room etc for his children as well as a dining area for his servants. He grazed beef and dairy cattle on his property and had a large orchard of pears, plums and apple trees and some vines too. The kitchen garden would have provided most of the vegetables for the household. When the Sturt children reached high school age Sturt and his family returned to England in 1853 for their continuing education. The property and house was kept by the Sturt family until 1877 after Sturt’s death. It then had various owners before being purchased by the local Council in 1957. It later was added to the register of the National Estate and opened as museum. The museum trust was lucky to have the Sturt family in Dorset send back to South Australia much of Charles Sturts furniture and effects from his time in Dorset from 1853 until his death in 1869. So the house has Sturt’s furniture but not the furniture that he used when he resided in Adelaide. Charles Sturt’s brother Evelyn also settled in South Australia and he was the first to take upland near Mount Gambier in 1844. He established Compton station which he held until 1853. A few years before that time he had moved to Victoria where he took up a position as police magistrate. He visited England in 1869 and saw his brother who died that year. On a second visit to England in 1885 Evelyn Sturt took ill and died on the voyage. He was buried in Dorset. |
| 撮影日 | 2015-09-07 14:30:58 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| カメラ | DSC-HX30V , SONY |
| 露出 | 0.002 sec (1/500) |
| 開放F値 | f/3.2 |