Boorowa. The unusually designed Soldiers Memorial Tower. Built in 1935. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Boorowa. The unusually designed Soldiers Memorial Tower. Built in 1935. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Boorowa. Tipperary of the South.Squatters beyond the approved Nineteen Counties settle here in 1828.Their properties were worked with assigned convicts euphemistically called assigned servants! The lands along the Boorowa River were very fertile as they were volcanic soils from an extinct volcano. This squatting era ended in the mid-1840s and when the assignment of convicts ended in 1841 many were forced to stay on in the Boorowa district to which they had been assigned. Thus many ticket-of-leave convicts and ex-convicts of Irish ancestry stayed on in the Boorowa district. The town of Boorowa was laid out in 1850 but not much happened in terms of town development until the 1860s. The Irish ex-convicts were political convicts from Clonoulty in Tipperary where they had stormed a hospital in 1815 that a garrison of British troops intended to occupy. During the night 15 Irishmen levelled the former infirmary. They were tried in 1816 and along with about 135 other convicts they were transported from Cork to Sydney, arriving in December 1816. Many ended up as assigned convicts near Boorowa. In the 1850s free Irish settlers, escaping the 1848 potato famine, also migrated to the Boorowa district. So many Irish people moved here that it was known as the Tipperary of the South. A popular story was that when a Catholic nun was asked if she had been to Ireland she said no but she had been to Boorowa. Consequently the first substantial stone Catholic Church west of the Great Divide was built in Boorowa in local stone in 1855 but non-stone Catholic Churches had been built earlier in Bathurst in 1843 and Yass in 1844. With time the Boorowa church deteriorated and was replaced with the current St Patrick’s Church built in 1877. One of the stained glass windows in the Catholic Church above the entrance door is a memorial to Daniel O’Connell “The Liberator of Ireland”. He started the process of independence from the British. Next to the Catholic Church is the St Joseph’s Catholic School built in 1882 although the town had a small Catholic school from 1848. The creek through the parklands is Ryan’s Creek which flows into Boorowa River (a tributary of the Lachlan River). A rudimentary town emerged in the 1850s and 1860s with the first police station built in 1857, the first Post Office in 1856, first Courthouse in 1860, the first hotels and stores. The fine buildings still standing in the town today are the Courthouse (1884), the Post Office (1876), the unusual Memorial Clock Tower (1933), the original Council Chambers (1909), the Guild Hall (1909), the Mechanics Institute (1883), Glenara House, now a gallery ( 1866) and the former Star Hotel next to it ( 1867) etc. |
| 撮影日 | 2019-01-04 09:14:23 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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