Truro. The current Uniting Church. Built in 1860 as the Congregational Church. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Truro. The current Uniting Church. Built in 1860 as the Congregational Church. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Truro. Truro is in the Hundred of Jellico. Mr. L.McBean of Baldon took out a lease covering Truro in 1845. The Hundred of Jellico (originally the Hundred of North Rhine) was declared in 1851 with surveying being conducted in 1854 and land being sold from 1855 onwards. The government declared the track from Gawler to what was to become Blanchetown on the Murray River a road in the early 1850s and a coach service to the Murray began soon after. The creek and permanent water holes made Truro a favourite camping spot on this journey to the Murray. Truro was laid out as private town in 1850 on leasehold land and allotments were soon taken up. It was named after the township of Truro in Cornwall. Copper mining attracted Cornish miners to Wheal Barton mine in 1849 /1850 on the outskirts of town. Like Burra some dugout houses were carved in the local creek bed at Truro but by 1852 the mine had been abandoned. Meantime the town of Truro had progressed and the Crown Hotel (1850) had been built. It was one of the first buildings in the fledgling town. In 1851 the Post Office and a chapel were erected. Other major structures built in the 1850s, 1860s and 1870s were: Congregational Church (1860) – now the Uniting Church; Truro hotel (1863); Police Station (1867); Institute Hall (1875); and the National Bank (1875). Throughout its history the town has been dependent on passing traffic on its way to the Murray and N.S.W but cereal cropping has been important too. The town and district council was declared in 1876. By the time of the 1883 census the town had a population of 265. A flour mill was erected around 1876. Edwin Davey (1839-1923) the town flour-miller and grain merchant was born in Cornwall. He came to SA in 1849 and after completing his schooling he began work in his uncle's flour-mill at Daveyston. In 1865 he and his brother James bought the Steam Flour Mill at Angaston. Three years later they were shipping flour in steamers up the Murray-Darling River to New South Wales. From 1869 Edwin traded alone. He bought his cousin's Daveyston mill in 1875 and in 1880 built the Excelsior Mill at Eudunda. In 1892 he purchased the Salisbury roller flour mill followed by flour mills in Sydney and Melbourne. During World War One (1917) the railway was extended from Nuriootpa to Truro. In the 19th century it was proposed to extend the railway the railway to Blanchetown but this never happened. By the time the railways had money for such a scheme the days of the Murray River trade were over and the age of motorised transport had arrived. |
| 撮影日 | 2015-12-10 10:47:02 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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