Hopetoun. The 1927 built Mt Gambier limestone Methodist Church is now a combined Methodist and Baptist Church. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Hopetoun. The 1927 built Mt Gambier limestone Methodist Church is now a combined Methodist and Baptist Church. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Hopetoun.The first white people to settle in the Mallee along Yarriambiack Creek were Peter McGinnis and his wife Rose. They built Corrong homestead in the late 1840s and added to it in 1850s. They sited it beside Lake Lascelles as it is known now. When McGinnis took up his run in 1846 the Mallee was known for being impervious to traverse. McGinnis who came from Ireland when he was 21 with his wife had worked on the Warracknabeal run from 1844. His father died that year and McGinnis bought a flock of sheep with his inheritance and set off with a shepherd north of Warracknabeal to squat on land. With his Aboriginal guide he found Lake Corrong in July 1846 and decided to settle there. Near them was Henry Davis with his 60,000 acre run at Brim. Rose McGinnis followed soon after Peter McGinnis arrived at Corrong. In 1848 the homestead was erected. The Corrong run extended lengthways along Yarriambiack Creek for about 22 miles (36 kms). In 1860 the homestead had more rooms added making it L shaped. They had seven children and an adopted Aboriginal son. McGinnis made his shepherd Bell a one third partner in the run which was licensed by 1848. By 1870 the run was carrying 95,000 sheep. The partnership was dissolved in 1872 and by 1873 it covered 433,700 acres. Runs to the north along the River Murray were taken up in late 1840s near Swan Hill. In 1877 McGinnis sold the leasehold to Edward Harewood Lascelles (1847-1917.) Lascelles was born in Van Diemen’s Land in 1847. In 1868 he became partner in the wool broking firm of Dennys (his uncle) Lascelles and Co. Although Lascelles lived in Geelong he visited often and in 1891 he had another house built in the town called Hopetoun House. Lascelles bought Corrong run with Messrs Mandeville and Douglas. Lascelles had visited Corrong station in 1873 as a wool broker. His immediate concerns in 1877 were rabbits who had reduced carrying capacity of the land by 1878. Wild dingos thrived on rabbits and their numbers increased producing a double deleterious effect on sheep runs. By 1882 only 3,000 sheep were grazed on Corrong station instead of the previous 95,000. In 1883 the Mallee Pastoral Leases bill passed allowing pastoralists to obtain 20 year leases on their runs. This extra security allowed Lascelles, and others, to begin fencing paddocks to keep out the dingoes and rabbits. Then in 1885 the Victorian government built the dog fence from SA across the Mallee and then north to the River Murray. Lascelles also promoted poisoning to rid the land of the dingo problem. Lascelles went to SA in 1887 to investigate Mallee grain farming, stump jump ploughs and scrub rollers. Lascelles owned 640 acres freehold around the homestead but he then lobbied and persisted the government until got legislative government permission to subdivide 20 farms of 320 acres each out of his leasehold lands for share farmers. In 1890 this was the first share farming scheme in Victoria. Soon the size of the subdivided farms was increased to 480 acres and share farmers had the option of purchasing their land in 1900. The area near Corrong homestead was set aside for the town of Hopetoun. In 1890 Lord Hopetoun the Governor of Victoria visited Corrong station and so that was the name given to the town. The governor rode a horse down to Corrong from Swan Hill. Then he rode on horseback to Rosebery for champagne and then on to Warracknabeal. Lord Hopetoun made later visits to see the progress of the town. He became the first Governor General of Australia from 1901 to 1903. The first town blocks and farm blocks were sold in 1891. A further 52 town blocks were sold in 1892. Yarriambiack Creek was dammed before it entered Lake Lascelles to provide water for the town. Lascelles employed a horticulturist to experiment with growing fruit trees, vines, lucerne, wheat, oats, maize, sorghum etc. Lascelles wanted to show the promise of the Mallee and became known as the Father of the Mallee in Victoria. Only the olives have survived from that original orchard as salinity and droughts eventually killed off the orchard. But Lascelles always tried to help the new farmers. He provided horse feed until they could grow their own oats. He provided seed wheat for the new comers. He had a weekly killing day at Corrong homestead when farmers could get half a butchered sheep until they had fences and could have their own sheep. He was flexible with land payments, accepted only a small land deposit for those buying their land, and he only took his third of the crop in good years from the share farmers. By 1892 the farmers of Hopetoun region carted their wheat to the rail head in Beulah. Edward Lascelles then began building a private railway line from Beulah to Hopetoun but the 1893 depression hit and despite having spent over £4,000 on it the work was suspended. Lascelles then got the government to agree to build the line in return for surrounding 95,000 acres of land with no compensation. The railway reached Hopetoun in December 1893 and the first bags of wheat were carted away. Most of the first settlers on farms came from South Australia as they did elsewhere in the Victorian Mallee. Lascelles advertised the land in South Australia and in other states too. More Lascelles land was sold in 1893. In 1893 Lascelles had 16,500 acres sown in wheat by his twenty share farmers and on his own property. He had over 10,000 acres of his own land cleared for grain growing but by 1903 this had grown to 60,000 acres. He had the biggest farming acreage in Victoria. As more and more land was sold off Corrong station gradually disappeared. By 1901 he was selling either freehold land or land on a share farming basis for blocks of 1,000 acres. Edward Lascelles died in 1917. Hopetoun grew rapidly. 30 buildings were erected in the first three months after the first land sales. The first edition of the Hopetoun newspaper appeared in 1892 and the first school opened in the Corrong woolshed. (The first stone school opened in 1894 on land donated by Lascelles.) The first general store opened in 1892 as did a bakery. Soon the town had three hotels and a Mechanics Institute. In March 1894 Lord Hopetoun visited and stayed for a month in the town. To honour Lady Hopetoun the newspaper printed a special edition on white silk! By the mid-1890s Hopetoun had dressmakers, a saw mill, brickworks, saddlers, butchers, grain stores etc. The first official Post Office opened in 1898 and the present Post Office was erected in 1913. The first wooden Methodist Church was erected in 1893 and replaced with a Mt Gambier limestone church in 1927. The Anglican Church was built in 1907. The Baptists built their first church in 1894 and replaced it with another in 1922. Both the Catholics and Presbyterians held services in the Mechanics Institute. The Catholic Church was built in 1907 and replaced with a modern church in 1960. After World War One soldier settlers were placed on farm blocks of 640 acres. This was not viable and soon increased to 960 acre blocks. The soldier settler farmers helped the town prosper as did more soldier settlers after World War Two. The railway line from Hopetoun was extended to Patchewollock in 1925. |
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