Naracoorte Town Hall. Right hand side built 1876 as Institute. Left side built 1879 as Town Hall auditorium. Foundation stone laid by A Peake a later SA Premier. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Naracoorte Town Hall. Right hand side built 1876 as Institute. Left side built 1879 as Town Hall auditorium. Foundation stone laid by A Peake a later SA Premier. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Naracoorte.Prior to European settlement the Meintangk Aborigines lived in the district. They were singularly unimpressed with the arrival of Europeans and continued to fight for their land well into the 1860s and 1870s. It was as a result of a stock raid by Aborigines that a party of Europeans searching for the lost stock found the Naracoorte Caves. The area was settled in 1842 by the pioneer squatter George Ormerod. Like other pastoralists in this era he came from Victoria and did not know if he was squatting on land in SA or Victoria. Ormerod called his run Naracoorte and got leasehold of the land from 1843. He sold some of his leasehold to William MacIntosh, another Scotsman in 1845.Both men purchased freehold land once the government did the first surveys in 1849. In 1850 MacIntosh decided to establish a township on his freehold land. He named the town Kincraig after his birthplace in Scotland and duly built a hotel and a store hoping to attract settlers to the town. The town only progressed once gold was discovered in Victoria. Kincraig then became an important stopover point and the town was awash with miners moving to and from the diggings. It is said that in one year more than 7,000 Chinese (presumably many of those who had been illegally dropped at the Coorong) passed through the town on their way to the diggings. Kincraig got its first blacksmith in 1854. The first church, a Presbyterian church was built in 1856 as most of the town residents were Scottish as indeed were most residents in the South East at that time. When this church became too small Mrs Robertson of Struan House laid the foundation stone for the present day St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church which was completed in 1874. When the proposed new colony of Princeland arose in 1862 the SA government suddenly found the huge sum of £4,000 to construct a road from Naracoorte to Mt Gambier. In 1859 the government gazetted the town of Naracoorte adjacent to Kincraig. This was unpopular with the residents of Kincraig as they had to walk some distance to the post office etc. In 1869 the two townships merged and became Naracoorte. The town conducted most of its business with Portland in Victoria before the establishment of Kingston. Early local pastoralist Ormerod donated land in the centre of the town for a large square which still exists. Local government was proclaimed in 1870 when the town had a population of 900. By 1921 Naracoorte had a population of almost 3,000 people. The big industry throughout its history has been wool and in later years beef and the meat industry. But it had other industries expected of a regional centre- blacksmithing, a newspaper, aerated waters and a butter factory that operated until 1971. The regular livestock market was also very important. Other factories included a sawmill, a limekiln and a flourmill. The railway reached Naracoorte in 1876 from Kingston giving it access to a port. The train was a narrow gauge one designed to attract wool and even wheat from the Wimmera of Victoria. The line was later extended to near Bordertown to reach the wheat fields of the Tatiara district in 1881. The population of Naracoorte is now 5,700 people according to the 2011 census. |
| 撮影日 | 2004-12-08 03:19:19 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| カメラ | Vivicam4000 , Vivitar |
| 露出 | 0.003 sec (1/300) |
| 開放F値 | f/6.7 |