Mount Bryan. The former Catholic Church which was built in 1925. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Mount Bryan. The former Catholic Church which was built in 1925. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Mount Bryan. The dominant geographical feature of this area is Mt Bryan at 936 metres (or 3,070 feet). Nearby is Mount Razorback which is 863 metres (or 2,831 feet.) Mt Lofty is a mere 727 metres! The pastoralists moved into this high country from 1842 when Alfred Hallett took out a lease over the Mount Bryan Range. Across the ranges to the west Drs William and John Browne took out Booborowie run about the same time. These early leases were annual only and Joseph Gilbert of Pewsey Vale in the Barossa (and Gilberton in Adelaide) took out a 14 year lease over the Mt Bryan Range in 1851 totalling 156 square miles (100,000 acres). Following the development of the great copper mine at nearby Burra more pastoralists moved in on small leaseholds during the 1850s. John Tyler took out a small run on the flat which was later to become the township of Mount Bryan. The Hundred of Kingston (named after Surveyor George Strickland Kingston) was declared in 1860 and farmers rather than pastoralists moved into the district. Several had been employed in Burra and then moved onto the land to make their fortunes or otherwise. One was Henry Collins who established Lucernedale property which later became Collinsville merino sheep stud. He was the first to buy freehold land in the Hundred of Kingston starting with just 176 acres. His son established the sheep stud in 1884 but this was further east in drier country. (John Collins soon had 14,000 acres which became his Collinsville Stud.) Henry Collins near Mt Bryan planted lucerne on the flat land of his property hence his property name. Lucernedale occupied the land immediately to the south of present day Mount Bryan until it abutted Gebhardt’s Mackerode station .It also covered land to the south east of Mt Bryan. The lucerne that Collins grew was used to feed the sheep grazed on the eastern dryer parts of his estate. Another freehold settler from Burra was Gustav Gebhardt a butcher from Burra. He soon purchased 2,000 acres and continually added to it to create his Mackerode property. With his leased land he was the only German background immigrant to join the top ranks of pastoralists in SA. He later owned Pareora near Port Wakefield and other properties. The property was only sold out of the Gebhardt family in the 1990s. Charles Ullman another German background butcher from Burra also purchased land here but he never became one of the wealthy men of the district but more about him later. Mount Bryan emerged as a town over forty years as unusually the Hundred of Kingston had no government town surveyed in it because of tis proximity to Burra. The Mt Bryan Hotel opened in 1864 to service travellers and teamsters going further north. There was no rush to build churches in the Mt Bryan area because several pastoralists had small chapels on their own land- the Gebhardts had a Primitive Methodist chapel, Henry Collins had a Wesleyan Methodist chapel and Edward Godden had a Bible Christian Methodist chapel. But in 1874 the District Council of Mt Bryan was formed and the government was talking of extending the railway line from Burra north to Hallett. So in 1878 a rail siding was set to be established at Mt Bryan with the first train reaching the town in 1880. The station closed in 1972 some ninety years later. Charles Ullman subdivided part of his land in 1878 to create the private township of Mt Bryan immediately east of the rail siding with one street being Ullman Street. In 1881 another farmer Henry Skews subdivided part of his land to create town blocks west of the railway line near the hotel. Finally in 1907 the government created a government town which surrounded Ullman’s early Mt Bryan. There were plans for the Post Office and Police Station to be built in the new government town but nothing happened. But four identical stone railway workers cottages were erected in the government town. A state school opened in Mount Bryan in 1885 with an attached headmaster’s residence but it closed around 1990. The institute was officially opened in 1910 and is still in use. The Wesleyan Methodist church on Mr Collin’s property became the first Council Chambers and temporary school from 1878 to 1885 when the state school in the town opened. A general store and unofficial Post Office opened in 1879 in the emerging town. The Council later got its own Council Chamber with the new hall and institute and this was rented to the Anglicans and the Lutherans for church. In 1914 the foundation stone for the Anglican Church was laid and the church opened in 1915. The land for the church was donated by Mr Gebhardt. The lych-gate was added in 1964. It is now closed as a church. In 1913 land was donated for a new Methodist church and a wood and iron building called the ‘Cook House” was opened. It served the Methodists until a Romanesque style red brick church was opened next door in 1938. The Catholics held services in the Mt Bryan Hall for some years before they built St Brendan’s Catholic Church in 1925. Today only the hotel and hall survives as the school, churches and store and railway have all been closed. |
| 撮影日 | 2015-10-22 13:51:42 |
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