Mount Templeton. This 1885 built Wesleyan Methodist Church closed in 1969. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Mount Templeton. This 1885 built Wesleyan Methodist Church closed in 1969. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Mount Templeton. The first pastoralists here were Philip Butler (of Mallala) and Alexander Grant who took up a 27 square mile leasehold in 1851 which covered most of what were to become the Hundreds of Stow, Everard and Goyder. In 1854 a trig point for surveyors was established on the highest peak here which was called Mount Templeton probably after one of the surveyors. In the early 1860s most of the run was resumed and taken up by Edmund Bowman of Werocata on the Wakefield River. He used the name Mount Templeton for it. In 1868 Charles Burney Young bought up land previously held by Bowman when he purchased most of the Hundred of Stow and parts of the Hundred of Everard. He called his freehold property Mount Templeton Station. So when farmers decided on a name for the locale in early 1872 they called it Templeton too. Although the Hundred of Stow was declared in 1862 land sales only began in 1871. It was named by Governor Dominic Daly after Randolph Stow who was a politician who served as Attorney-General of South Australia from 1861 to 1863 and again from 1864 to 1865. In 1875 after his political career had ended Stow was appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court. But he died three years later aged 49 years. In June 1884 Charles Burney Young sold his Mount Templeton Station to Mssrs Freebairn, Hall and Young. He had been elected to the SA Legislative Council in 1878 and began disposing of his lands. Eventually two Young brother, not related to Charles Burney Young, owned Mount Templeton Station which they in turn sold to the state government in 1906. They sold over 20,000 acres freehold for £54,000 and they surrendered almost 11,000 acres of other land. The estate was resurveyed and 30 new farms and sections of land were created. These sections were sold in 1907 ranging in size from 400 acres to 1,000 acres. The acreage under wheat in the Hundred of Everard doubled from 1907 to 1912. At first farmers carted their wheat to a rail siding near Bowmans but from 1923 they carted it to nearby Bumbunga siding. A Wesleyan Church was built in 1872 on an acre of donated land. A new Wesleyan Church was built across the road from this early one in 1885 and it still exists. In 1937 the organ from the closing Watchman Methodist Church was donated to this church. It closed as a church in 1969. A government school opened here in 1881 to the north of the later 1885 church. When the school closed in 1951 the last teacher lived in the schoolroom and drove the school bus to Balaklava until 1973. A few kilometres to the north is the Mount Templeton Peace Hall. It was built in 1921. The land was donated by Patrick Howard and the building cost £1,000. Patrick Howard had purchased 1,048 acres from the Mount Templeton Station in 1907. Apart from social functions the Peace Hall was used for Catholic masses for 1923 to 1937. In 1954 a galvanised iron supper room was added to the rear of it. By 1977 the hall had few members and was about to close. It is now a vacant ruin. The old Mount Templeton Station homestead is down the road to the east of the Peace Hall and it dates from around 1860 and the property included a chapel, stales, coach shed and a school. |
| 撮影日 | 2019-09-30 11:55:47 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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| カメラ | DSC-HX90V , SONY |
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| 開放F値 | f/4.0 |