Flinders Ranges. South Australia. SCreen shot of the former Parachilna Primary School. It closed some years ago. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Flinders Ranges. South Australia. SCreen shot of the former Parachilna Primary School. It closed some years ago. / denisbin
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-改変禁止 2.1 |
|---|---|
| 説明 | Pastoral leases were taken up on the flats between the Flinders Ranges and Lake Torrens in the 1850s. Sir Thomas Elder took out Beltana run in 1862. A major drought occurred in 1864 but he was were not deterred. In the mid-1870s high rainfall seasons and a huge demand for new farming lands led the government to unwisely surveyed farming lands in the Flinders Ranges across the Willochra Plains to Hawker and beyond to Wonoka. Around the same time several Counties and Hundreds were surveyed and declared open for settlement in parts of the Flinders Ranges. The most northerly County in SA was Taunton declared in 1877 consisting of six Hundreds including Nilpena and Parachilna which were declared in 1881. It covered the region from Parachilna across into the Flinders Ranges and along the railway route to Leigh Creek. Other Hundreds included Carr in 1877 which was were centred on Blinman. Despite the County declaration little land was ever surveyed in Taunton except for the railway route and a few town at Parachilna, Beltana, Leigh Creek and Lyndhurst. These towns were all on the railway route to Farina and the Overland telegraph route to Darwin. Wonoka. The first pastoral lease was taken out here in 1851 by John McKinlay and named Wonoka station. The Hundred of Wonoka was declared in 1877 and with the coming of the Farina railway a small town was surveyed and opened up for sale in 1880. In the same year the foundation stone of a Wesleyan Methodist church was laid (opened Nov 1881) and a postal service began. The railway reached the town in May 1882 and the station was called Hookina Station! The town emerged with the government school opening in 1887 with 26 pupils. Some optimistic farmers were growing wheat crops in 1880 as sales of farms began in May 1880. The 1881 census recorded 73 residents in the Wonoka district. By 1884 the government was getting no takers for land sales but the Wonoka Hotel was licensed in that year. By May 1885 some land acreages were being surrendered. With successive droughts and the low average rainfall wheat growers failed to make a living. But the town was useful as a stopping place and transport centre for travellers and it was near Hawker. The grasshopper plaque of 1888 convinced many farmers to walk off their lands. The Wesleyan church appears to have closed around 1890 but the Wonoka Hotel traded until it closed in 1949. The school closed in 1922 and the town disappeared except for some china & rubbish. Parachilna.Surprisingly the town, of just 24 blocks, was surveyed in 1863 near a waterhole before there was even widespread pastoral lease holders in the Flinders Ranges. The government well was there to provide water for pastoralists and stock drovers wanting to get to the Northern Flinders or Gammon Ranges. But more significant was the fact that the town provided access to the copper mines at Blinman which were discovered in 1859. Parachilna Gorge provided a shorter route through fewer hills to get to Blinman than other routes. More survey work was done around Parachilna in 1873 and small leaseholds were offered for sale. The Hundred of Nilpena was declared in 1877 yet no development occurred. Things changed when the great northern railway came here in 1882 on its route to Farina. The line was built a few kilometres to the west and so the government settlement of Parachilna followed market forces and moved west as well. The Parachilna siding was built in 1881 in anticipation of the railway. The Prairie Hotel moved near the siding around 1882 and the current stone hotel was built in 1905. A Post Office followed and in 1890 the government surveyed a second town of Parachilna. It never grew and the main building left today is the Parachilna Prairie Hotel known for its Flinders feral food menu (camel, goat, kangaroo and emu), its Aboriginal art, gallery, Flinders foods and coffee in the hotel bar. The hotel also has some Ediacaran fossils displays of early jellyfish like organisms which emerged about 540 to 570 million years ago. These Nilpena fossils are the first known multi-organisms on earth and are of international importance and significance. The publicans own and run Nilpena Station to the west of the settlement. Near the hotel are the heritage listed Parachilna fettlers cottages and the ruins of the old railway station. Up in the Flinders Ranges behind the hotel is Edeowie Gorge with its Edeowie natural glass. This slag-like opaque rock or lechatelierite is found in clay baked layers which have been subjected to mineralization and oxidation. In Parachilna Gorge east of the town some land was donated to the Soldiers’ T.B. Aid Society to establish a tuberculosis sanatorium in the pristine air there. Partly due to the efforts of Ella Cleggett the Angorichina hostel opened in 1927 and treated patients until 1973. It is now a hostel for travellers. |
| 撮影日 | 2020-05-11 14:56:36 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
| タグ | |
| 撮影地 | |
| カメラ | DSC-HX90V , SONY |
| 露出 | 0.025 sec (1/40) |
| 開放F値 | f/4.0 |