Renmark. Morning mist on the Murray River. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Renmark. Morning mist on the Murray River. / denisbin
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| 説明 | , Renmark dates from 1888 when the Chaffey brothers got their irrigation settlement under way. Renmark is the oldest of the SA Riverland towns. But before the town was established Renmark was good pastoral country. The first leases were taken out in 1851 and the two local stations were Chowilla and Bookmark. Part of the Renmark area was also leased by John Chambers of Cobdogla Station. He took over both Bookmark and Chowilla runs in 1867, selling the leases on to Richard Holland, of Holland House at Turretfield near Gawler in 1870. Holland later transferred the leases to his step sons, William and Robert Robertson. Bookmark was later changed to Calperum run in 1897. It was Bookmark /Calperum that was resumed by the government for the Chaffey irrigation area at Renmark. Chowilla station still operates.Despite the early hiccups with the Chaffey scheme, as it collapsed, the Renmark Irrigation Trust came into operation in 1892 and still operates today. It inherited miles of open drainage and irrigation channels from the Chaffey scheme, although most irrigation water is piped underground to avoid evaporation these days. Although the Chaffeys were first signed up to start the Mildura scheme, it was the Renmark scheme that was the first irrigation area of Australia. It beat Mildura by three months! Although the plan was to develop 50,000 acres of irrigated land, there were just 3,000 acres being cultivated when the Chaffey scheme collapsed. But as noted above, the Irrigation Trust took up where the Chaffeys left off and continued to expand the irrigation area. By 1914 over 5,000 acres were being irrigated. These days over 17,000 acres are being irrigated in the Renmark area for grapes, citrus, apricots, peaches and other stone fruits. The Riverland is the second biggest irrigation area for fruit and grapes in Australia after the Goulbourn Valley (Shepparton area) of Victoria. The Riverland in total, not just the Renmark irrigation area, produces over $500 million worth of agricultural produce annually and around 50% of SA’s grape harvest. Over 80,000 acres or about 32,000 hectares is irrigated in the SA Riverland. Irrigation House 1888 Renmark.The Art Deco Soldiers Memorial Hall Renmark. The township of Renmark was proclaimed in 1904, becoming a municipality in 1935. Whilst other towns in SA contracted during the Great Depression Renmark still slowly expanded and it has some fine Art Deco buildings from these times to reflect this expansion. The town probably got its name from a local shipbuilder in the pre-irrigation days called William Renny. The area was known as Rennies and then expanded to Renmark? The earliest buildings in town date from around 1888 when it started- the school opened in that year and the Irrigation Trust building dates from 1888 when it was the Chaffey Office. The other building from the early period is the Renmark Hotel. It started as a temperance hotel (what an oxymoron) and was taken over as a Community Hotel in 1897. It was the first licensed community hotel in the British Empire! The building you see today, with its fine Art Deco embellishments dates from 1937 when the third storey was added and the façade changed. Before more recent alterations the Renmark Hotel had the longest bar in Australia; and the amazing mechanized punka wallahs (based on the hand operated Indian punka wallahs) that tried to cool bar patrons during the hot summer months. What a pity they were removed as they were a unique historical feature of this building. The building of the hotel was financed by the second wife of James Trussell. He came out as the 10 year old cabin boy to Colonel William Light on the Rapid. After Light died he was employed by John Chambers of Cobdogla Station. Trussell was the manger of that property by 1850 as a 24 year old. He managed Cobdogla for 45 years and was a close friend of John McDouall Stuart, the great explorer.Renmark was especially affected by the 1956 Murray flood. Low-lying areas flood early. Then the Sturt Highway to Paringa was closed. Large areas were sand bagged but the river levels kept rising. About two thirds of the town’s population was evacuated from the town. The river eventually rose over 10 metres flooding the main street, the high school, the hospital- which had to be evacuated, and shops. The flood lasted for seven months. But throughout they managed to keep the road out to Berri safe with sandbags and levees. There was also flooding at Angoves Winery. |
| 撮影日 | 2010-06-21 09:31:32 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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