Coromandel Valley cemetery. headstone for some of the children of Thomas Matthews one of the pioneers of Coromandel Valley. He lived in Hurds Hill house built in 1849. He donated the land for this public cemetery. JPG : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Coromandel Valley cemetery. headstone for some of the children of Thomas Matthews one of the pioneers of Coromandel Valley. He lived in Hurds Hill house built in 1849. He donated the land for this public cemetery. JPG / denisbin
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| 説明 | Coromandel Valley. Coromandel Valley was named after the ship called the Coromandel which berthed at Holdfast Bay (Glenelg) in January 1837 before Colonel Light had even surveyed and laid out the city of Adelaide. (That happened in March of 1837.) The valley got its name from the desertion of around 10 sailors from the ship the Coromandel. Some hid in the valley until the vessel had left South Australia and then they surrendered to authorities and were remandered for a few days before they were released. None of these escaping sailors became the first residents of Coromandel Valley as they had just been squatting on the land. Surveys and sales of land in the valley did not occur until around 1839 when the SA Company became one of the major purchasers of land. Amongst the early legitimate settlers were James Ackland who gave his name to the hill behind the valley that leads up to Cherry Gardens and Scott Creek and other areas of the Adelaide Hills. Another pioneering settler was Alexander Murray whose name was used for the Murray Hill area of the valley. He arrived in Coromandel in 1840 and in the 1850s established his very successful biscuit and jam factory to use some of the produce of the valley. The factory exported biscuits and jams to the other colonies until business waned in the 1890s and the factory finally closed in 1903. Murray named his house Craiglee and he employed local builder John Weymouth junior to build it. Thomas Turner (hence Turners Avenue where the government established an experimental orchard in 1910) established himself in the valley in 1848. He immediately built a two storey residence on Sturt River and a bakery/general store opposite his house. This was leased to Richard Winn in 1883 and the bakery was soon known as Winns bakery on Winns Road. The Winn family had settled on land in the valley around 1850. That building is now owned by the Coromandel Valley National Trust and run as their little local museum. Another important pioneer was Thomas Matthews who took up land in the valley in 1839. He also established early dairy herds near Springton and near Mount Torrens in the Adelaide Hills. Whilst setting up his dairy farms he had a grand two storey stone house built in the valley. When it was completed in 1849 Matthews named the property Hurds Hill after his wife’s maiden name and the village in Somerset. John Weymouth another early local was the builder of Hurds Hill. Weymouth, who arrived in SA with his family in 1838 acquired land in the valley in 1839 and operated a quarry from it. His sandstone was used for many Coromandel Valley buildings which he erected with the help of his son John. He also built other houses in the valley and his name is now commemorated by the Weymouth Oval in Coromandel and Weymouth road off Acklands Hill road. John Weymouth senior died in 1887 and was buried in the Coromandel Valley cemetery. His son John went on to become a major builder in the Clarendon, Cherry Gardens and Eden Hills areas. He was killed in a bushfire at Coromandel Valley in 1934. The Coromandel Cricket Club was founded in 1862 and is one of the oldest cricket clubs in South Australia. The club used the Weymouth oval. The Wesleyan Methodist Church had its foundation stone laid in 1859 and it was completed a few months later. In 1905 a Sunday school room was added. The church closed around 1998 and became private residence. At that time a new Uniting Church was built elsewhere in Coromandel Valley but the bell from the 1859 church was removed and mounted on a stone in front of the new church. Although the Wesleyan Church was the first to be built in Coromandel Valley other denominations followed with their own churches. The Anglicans built the pretty Gothic style St Johns church in local slate stone in 1872. It opened in 1873 and a stone apse and vestry was added in 1905. The building contractor for that 1905 work was the local Blackwood builder Mr D Hewitt. The final 19th century church to be built in Coromandel Valley was the Baptist Church. It was finished in 1895. The Baptists added a vestry and Sunday school room in 1908. After the church closed the Uniting Church acquired it as a church hall as it is next to their modern 1998 church. The Coromandel Valley Institute was built in 1881 on land donated by the wife of Samuel Gill. It was used for meetings and public functions for many years and the library room was widely used. The Baptist Church held services in the Institute until their church was built in 1895. A small private school was started up in the valley by the Reverend Samuel Gill the father of the famous watercolourist S.T. Gill. He started his first school in Coromandel in 1843. In 1850 a school room and chapel was built on land donated by Thomas Matthews of Hurds Hill. This was eventually demolished and the stone government school, the first in the Blackwood and Belair districts opened in 1877. It is still in use as the Coromandel School. Coromandel Valley has a small general cemetery which opened in 1857 with the trustees being some of the well-known pioneers of the Valley namely Thomas Matthews, Alexander Murray, joseph turner and others. It was established on land donated by Thomas Matthews. The cemetery is now controlled by the City of Onkaparinga and the first burial was in 1853 four years before the cemetery was formally founded. Among the many people buried there were members of the Winn family, Alexander Murray and his family members, Thomas Matthews, the Mackereth family of Scott Creek and Weymouth family members. |
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| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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