Overland Corner and the Murray River. In the bottom of the photo is the Overland Corner Hotel built in 1859. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Overland Corner and the Murray River. In the bottom of the photo is the Overland Corner Hotel built in 1859. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Overland Corner.This spot emerged as a suitable crossing point of the Murray River for the early pioneers overlanding cattle and sheep from NSW to the infant colony of South Australia. This livestock traffic began in 1838 with Joseph Hawdon and Charles Bonney – hence the naming of Lake Bonney in 1838. From that time on Overland Corner was a resting place and crossing place. In 1855 a small Police Station was established here. Then in 1859 a thick walled 14 roomed hotel was constructed here which still stands today. It served the needs of the men overlanding livestock as this trade continued into the 1870s and beyond. In 1865 the Surveyor General of SA George Goyder estimated that 350,000 sheep passed by the top of Lake Bonney each year on their overland journey. But the other big impetus to change along the Murray River was the development of the riverboat trade after 1853. More travellers came to the banks of the Murray cutting wood for the riverboats and working on the pastoral leasehold sheep runs which were taken up in the mid-1850s. A small police outpost was established at Overland Corner in 1855. Next came the hotel in 1859 founded by John Chambers the holder of a local pastoral leasehold which he had taken up around 1856. The local creek from Lake Bonney into the Murray is named Chambers Creek and John Chambers and his station which covered areas from near Waikerie to Berri was named Cobdogla Station. All the later irrigation lands of Barmera, Berri, Loveday and Cobdogla were developed on the leasehold of John Chambers. The 14 rooms were built around a central courtyard with a room in one corner for the regional Post Office. The first licensee was William Brand and his wife Martha from March 1860. It is said that she was the first white woman in the Riverland region. To supplement his income William Brand cut timber which he sold to the riverboats. The couple ran the hotel for several years and then moved out of the district. They returned to Overland Corner in 1870 and ran the general store here for around 30 years. Both William Brand and his wife were buried in the old cemetery above the second Post Office. In 1862 William’s son George Brand took over the license. Another son of the Brand family built a general store next to the hotel but it was later demolished after William’s death in 1902. For a short time William Napper also had the license of the Overland Corner Hotel from 1876 to 1879. It was also at that time that the government built the second Post Office in 1876 and a new Police Station in 1877. In the 1890s the importance of Overland Corner began to wane and the Police Station closed in 1894 and the hotel closed in 1897. It became an eating house only and store. Eventually even the horse coaching service from Morgan railway station to Renmark ceased in 1912 and the eating house struggled to survive until motor vehicle services began from Morgan to Barmera in 1919 when that town was established. The hotel continued trading as a store and eating house until taken over by the National Trust in 1965 to preserve one of the oldest buildings in the Riverland. Apart from the Brands family there are also unmarked graves in the cemetery up the hill. Graves were dug here for any bodies discovered along the mail route to Wentworth in the early days as the police could report on the deaths from Overland Corner station. Overland Corner Hotel was relicensed in 1987. |
| 撮影日 | 2017-05-31 16:04:20 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| カメラ | DSC-HX90V , SONY |
| 露出 | 0.006 sec (1/160) |
| 開放F値 | f/5.6 |