Jamestown South Australia. The fine Wesleyan Methodist Church and bell which was built in 1878. Foundations tone laid 1877. It is now the Uniting Church. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Jamestown South Australia. The fine Wesleyan Methodist Church and bell which was built in 1878. Foundations tone laid 1877. It is now the Uniting Church. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Jamestown .John Bristow Hughes (later a part owner of the Moonta Mines) took out the first pastoral lease in this area in 1841. The country is high, with good and reliable rainfall and ideal for pastoralism. He named his property Bundaleer. This was later held by Charles B Fisher. The other early pastoral run near the township was Old Canowie established by Daniel Cudmore. The hundred was surveyed in 1870-71 and the land opened up to small farmers. The town itself was surveyed in 1871 and named after the Governor of South Australia, Sir James Fergusson. The Scottish influence is still present in Jamestown with many Scottish street names. The Main Street is called Ayr Street and is especially wide for a country town. The District Council was formed a few years later in 1875 and the first Mayor appointed in 1878. Within a few years the town was well established and was one of the largest towns in the mid north along with Port Augusta and Port Pirie. In the 1881 census the town had almost 1,000 people and it was the 6th largest town north of Adelaide. Today it is not much bigger with 1,400 people! Jamestown is situated on the banks of Belalie Creek. The first shop or business in Jamestown was a saddlery which opened in 1872. The butcher’s shop in Jamestown is meant to be the oldest butcher shop in South Australia. Dr Cockburn’s House built in 1876 still stands in the extension of the Main Street. Other old buildings in the Main Street area include the Lutheran Church, built in 1876 for the Presbyterians; St James Catholic Church, built in 1929, the Memorial Hall built as the Institute in 1876, and the Uniting Church nearby, built as a Wesleyan Church in 1878. The town was linked quite early (1878) with Port Pirie by rail and later to Peterborough in January 1881. The station building was built in 1885 and is now a museum. A new railway station was built when the rail line was standardised to Broken Hill in 1969. The largest employer of labour in Jamestown's history was the Humphris Emu Butter Factory, which employed over forty people around 1900. After Mr Humphris’ death, his wife carried on the aerated waters factory in order to support her family of ten children. She extended the business into the manufacture of tomato sauce in 1887. In 1895 the firm expanded into the manufacture of butter. In 1899 her firm opened a factory in Adelaide in Carrington Street, and most of the manufacturing of sauces and pickles was transferred to this factory from Jamestown, due to the greater availability of raw materials. In 1909, thirty people were employed in this Adelaide factory before its demise.Jamestown’s famous residents were Dr. John Alexander Cockburn, who was Premier of South Australia from June 27, 1889 until August 18, 1890 and Minister of Education from 1885 – 1887, and again from 1893 until April 1898. He was active in the planning of Federation. The township of Cockburn near Broken Hill was named after him. Reginald M.Williams was born here and grew up in the town before he established his bush clothing business. M.S.Mcleod, a member of a local farming family started his bicycle shop in Jamestown in 1916. He later developed this into a state-wide tyre and hardware business, which eventually became a national organisation and still operates today as a trading company. Thomas Mitchell was behind the creation of the South Australian Farmers Union, in Jamestown at a public meeting on 28 February 1888. The movement spread quickly and the headquarters were moved to Adelaide in 1895 and the name was changed to the SA Farmers Cooperative Union. By the 1920 the cooperative had branched into the dairy industry and eventually became known as Farmers Union. In 1962 it became Southern Farmers Cooperative, a large corporate enterprise. It ceased to exist when taken over by National foods in 1970, but the brand name Farmers Union persisted with some products such as iced coffee etc. |
| 撮影日 | 2017-06-01 11:46:09 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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